Help!! All My Basketweave Fell Off!
Decorating By swoods982 Updated 22 Mar 2007 , 10:15pm by BlakesCakes
I made a small basketweave cake last night using buttercream and I got up this morning to find it had all fallen off! What happened?? It has to be done by tomorrow evening and now Im afraid it will happen again unless I can figure out what I did wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Was your icing too thick? I would try thinning it down a bit and make sure your basketweave is touching your cake. Also make sure you ice your cake first before the basketweave goes on. This has never happened to me before. I tend to use thinner icing when I decorate, easier on the hands!
I used the Wilton buttercream that Ive always used. The cake had a crumb coat using apricot glaze. Our teacher suggests not icing before basketweave because theres no need, so I just did the crumb coat.
The icing did seem a little thick as it went on, maybe thats the problem.
I had that problem once. I bake a very moist cake, and I did not allow the sides to dry properly before applying the crumb coat and icing layers. It peeled like a ripe banana.
Theresa 
Maybe the glaze was too slick for the BC. My teacher had us frost it with a crumb coat of BC then we did our .
My Wilton instructor also told our class to use a crumb coat of BC before the basketweave. The glaze may not have been stable enough to hold the BC on the cake.
I really think it was the apricot glaze. The buttercream had nothing to grip onto. 
I always do a thin crumb coat before doing basketweave. The coat is thin enough that you can still see the cake through it, but the basketweave has somthing to grab.
Also, you have to touch the cake all the way down (on the verticals) when you do the basketweave. I've seen people try to just attach the verticals at the top and bottom and just let the middle sort of "float"--and I've seen that type slide right off of the cake.
Hope the second time is the charm.
Rae
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