Cake Cracked

Decorating By sharyn66 Updated 9 Apr 2006 , 6:02am by fearlessbaker

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sharyn66 Posted 3 Apr 2006 , 2:22am
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a cake i baked for a birthday at work cracked like it was in a minor earth quake icon_surprised.gif . i made the cake wednesday evening to decorate thursday afternoon to go to work on friday. well i ended up in the er on thursday morning and was released late thursday after noon icon_sad.gif . i went home and wrapped the cake again and put it in the fridge. i pulled it out this afternoon and got it to temp then i proceded to ice and decorate it everything was fine and i put it into the tote i was taking it to work in. its about 9:50 on sunday night i have been working on this cake for hours and it looks decent considering. i go over to the table to finsh cleaning up and take another look at the cake and it has a crack in it i swear it looks like an earth quake hit it. i dont know if its cause i made it so far in advance that it was starting to dry out or what but tomorrow she will have a cake that you can tell something happened to. even though i tried to smoothe it over you can see where the icing letters started to fall into the crack. i took a picture of it after i fixed it should have taken one of the crack as soon as i figure out how to get the pic off of my cell phone ill post it. what a mess. oh well considering the er visit i guess she'll be okay with the cracked cake. icon_redface.gif

any ideas on what made it crack so i can prevent it from happening again?

thanks everyone for all of your help on my past posts.

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chellebell70 Posted 3 Apr 2006 , 2:32am
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I was having problems with mine cracking too. But I think that it was a support issue. Was it supported well so it didn't move at all?
My mom says that glycerin in the icing helps keep it softer too. I hate when that happens!!! All that work and it cracks.

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sharyn66 Posted 8 Apr 2006 , 7:46pm
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i guess supportive might have been the issue i have made a 10 inch cake before but only for us at home so who knows. any ways thanks for your input icon_biggrin.gif

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leily Posted 8 Apr 2006 , 9:07pm
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i am a little confused. Did the cake actually crack? or the icing cracked?

If it is the icing I am going to guess you didn't have enough support, sometimes you need 2-3 of the wilton boards under your cake. You can also get some masonite cut to different sizes.

HTH

Leily

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tatetart Posted 8 Apr 2006 , 9:12pm
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Did you cut the center mound off the cake?

Sometimes if you invert a cake with a mound still in the middle, it will settle and start to crack down the middle.

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Lisa Posted 8 Apr 2006 , 9:13pm
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Sometimes if the cake isn't totally level when it's frosted, the weight of the cake/icing will level itself and cause a crack. Do you think that could have caused it?

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PennySue Posted 9 Apr 2006 , 5:45am
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I had the same problem with a basket cake I did. I think it, too, was a support issue. The think weighed a ton! It cracked right down both sides. I just piped on more little flowers and sent it off to work with my DH. You couldn't even tell.
LL

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fearlessbaker Posted 9 Apr 2006 , 6:02am
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PennySue, Your basket cake is so beautiful. I have been practicing basketweave every day for a few hours and still can't get the horizontal ones straight. What is the trick?

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