Ok, so I just finished, and delivered my elmo cake for a party. I've made everything on the cake more than a few times in the past for other cakes. So WHY did everything possible go wrong this time? The buttercream, which I've made seriously 300x was an odd consistancy, the gumpaste wouldn't harden right and my letters wouldn't stay stuck to the name plates. What the heck happened?
Has this happened to anyone else?
At least it's over....sigh...
-Michelle
Sorry you had a hard time with the cake. You would never know. It looks awesome!
how was the weather over by you today? if there was a lot of humidy then yes, your sugar IS going to go berzerk!
Thanks guys!
You know, it's winter here, so I hadn't thought about humidity as a cause BUT it got super warm, foggy and the crazy snowstorm we had here yesterday turned into rain. That just might be what happened! That's making me reeeeeally NOT happy to make cakes this summer! It's going to be crazy humid here. I hope my a/c will help!
I guess it's just onward and upwards...
-Michelle
PS...elmo was cut about a million times with a tiny pair of snips I have to become "fuzzy"
You got that right Beth. I made a cake and tried and tried to make gumpsate ladies shoes and I let it set out for 3 days and never would hardened I just got disgusted and threw it away. I also tried to make some fondant and it took almost two bags to get the consistancy right.
And yes your cake looks great it doesn't show that you had trouble, but we never see the process only the end result.
great job!
yep, humididity will kill ya!
hint for summer so don't have to crank A/C up so high:
IF you can close off the kitchen from rest of house...invest in a portable dehumidifier and use in kitchen.
Yes, A dehumidifier is a great investment, add that to your list of equipment, I used to have a small one running all the time in my gumpaste room, but be careful when you take your sugar items from 'no humidity' to the 'real world' or they WILL melt in a matter of minutes!
I learned that lesson well when I had made a roomful of gumpaste tulips for sale to a "well known' cake decorator, and she went on vaca and left the tulips out...she came back to wires siting in the center of puddles...then tried to get me to make her another couple of hundred tulips..needless to say..she never paid me for the first batch..ugh!
you guys are really so sweet!
I wish they would call (or email me) and let me know if he tasted ok! I tried all the parts and they were good, I'm just curious about the whole thing together!
I think I will get a dehumidifier. We could use one anyways, it gets horrible here in the summer!
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