Fondant Decorations On Buttercream Cake...
Decorating By cindy6250 Updated 1 Feb 2006 , 5:38pm by TexasSugar
I am making a variation of the "Girls Rule" cake in the 2006 Wilton Yearbok. How far in advance can I make my fondant decorations? The cake is dure Saturday. I am icing the cake with a Chocolate Buttercream per the customer's request. Do I need to wait till the last minute to add them to the cake? Have read they will get slimy if left on the cake too long.
Cindy
i haven't had a problem with fondant decorations getting slimmy, i put them on the day before delivery. When you cover a buttercream cake with fondant , the fondant doesn't get slimmy so why would the decorations? Perhaps if you leave them there for a long time they will but overnight they should be fine.
The pieces will only get slimey if you refridgerate them, sometimes the dampness in the fridge can get to them. If you are making the people that wrap around the top layer, I wouldn't do them in advance because if they dry out you won't be able to have them wrap flatly around the cake. (Is flatly a word?)
If you don't need to wrap them around the side of a curved cake or over edges, like the top of the bottom, over the edge down to the sides, then it wouldn't hurt to do them in advance and have them dry out some.
Actually they may be easier to handle if they are. Sometimes with the fresh pieces you have to be careful not to stretch or pull them out of shape.
I put fondant pieces on buttercream cakes more than I put fondant on fondant cakes. My family doesn't like fondant, so I usually just use it as an accent. I have never had it get slimey.
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