We went to Home Depot this Weekend and I bought a couple of High-Density Foam Rollers (a 2-inch and a 6-inch...they didn't have a 4-inch)...Man oh Man!!! Look out BC...here I come!!!

You'll luv it! I told my hubby that I wanted a holster to keep them in so I could whip 'em out when I was ready to smooth that cake!

I can not wait to try this. I have to wait though, I am working on the fondant right now, but I have a feelling that I will be like wow why didn't I try that first lol.

I love it! I won't use anything else other than the rollers now, not even the viva papertowel method.

Hate to be a party pooper but are they food safe??

If they are brand new and NEVER been used for anything else the rollers are fine.

I just bought some yesterday too and I have 2 cakes I am gonna do this weekend! WAaahoo! I am excited too! I think it is going to be amazingly easy!

Is the roller actually supposed to say HIGH DENSITY on the package? Because I bought one to try on the cake I did this weekend and some of my icing kept sticking to the roller, and other parts I think the icing crusted too much, because it was all dull and matty. What am I doing wrong? I hope you have more luck than I did!

Christie

What kind of BC would you use with these rollers? A regular BC or a crusty BC? Does it matter?

Finally got around to buying one myself, have yet to try it...I couldn't find one with a short handle so I hope this one will not be awkward, the handle is like 8"-10" long....

I use several different buttercream recipes, but the roller has worked on all of them! It does have to crust first, and the time on that depends on the recipe I use. But don't let it sit too long! It will dry out too much and get wrinkly and cracked.

After I frost, I keep testing the cakes- when I can lightly touch the top and the icing doesn't come off on my finger, it's usually ready to roll. This can take anywhere from 5-20 minutes, I've found. If the icing starts sticking to the roller, just stop and wait a few more minutes.

My package didn't say "high-density" on it, either. But the rollers were not as spongy as the others I saw, so I figured it would work. The packaging did say it was for an "ultra-smooth" finish, or something like that.

How smoothdoes your cake have to be before you ues the rollers? Right now I use wax paper and a fondant roller to smooth my cakes and they don't get as smooth as the cakes I've seen in pictures! I was just wondering if maybe I'm not icing it correctly.

My cakes are not very smooth before I roll them I just smooth very little with the knife hardly at all and I only have to wait around 5-10 minutes to roll I do the finger test too!! Once you have tried it you won't know what to do with the time it saves you, lol! Melvira is a genius for starting this method!!!

I need to buy the 2 inch roller, I have the 4 inch and love it....

I know what you mean, I love using this method. I used my old crusting buttercream recipe and it worked fantastic, but when I use a buttercream that doesn't crust, it didn't look as good. I refrigerate the cake so it will harden up, but still it didn't work very good. Have you had that problem? The recipe that doesn't crust has 2cups shortening, 1 c. butter to 2 lbs p. sugar, the other one only has 1 c. shortening 1 c. butter to 2 lbs p. sugar. The second one works so much better, it just doesn't taste as good, too sweet. thanks

Are there any great recipes out there for a good crusting buttercream?

You won't believe this but the original recipe called for 4 c. of fat, and I cut it down to 3, it is so light and fluffy, and not near as sweet, so I like the taste so much better, but now as easy to work with for smoothing.

Ummm...I MUST know what and where to get these rollers! I am obsessed with getting my cakes super smooth! Are these actual cake rollers or what? Where (what type of store and where in the store) do you get these?????? Thanks!

Hubby was going to Lowe's so I told him to pick me up one. It says High Density on the cardboard packaging.

I know it sounds weird but its true, it tastes less greasy to me, its fluffy and light and not as sweet, I like the flavor so much better, but like I said, its hard to use the roller, and I love that roller! The roller is sold in the paint supplies, its foam, not like the fuzzy paint rollers, I can't find a big one around here, so I use a 4" foam roller, works great.

Im going to go out this week and buy me a couple of rollers as well. Im very excited. So how about after you finish your cake? Do you wash these every time? This may be a dumb question.

Yes, you have to wash these after use (unless you're using parchment paper underneath but I think that's a waste of parchment ). Just put some dishsoap on your hands and then rub it on the roller. It's easier to get all the soap out that way rather than putting soap directly on the roller.

HTH,
Christine

LOVE MINE!! The last two cakes I have done people asked if they were fondant, because they were so smooth!

I just used a roller for the first time on a cake and it worked great! The only problem is that I couldn't find a 6" that didn't have a long handle, so I only got a 4". Could see little lines, but looks SOOO much better than before. I think that the 6" would have worked a lot better. This weekend I will really have to find a 6", it is so easy!! LOVE IT! Thanks Melvira!