Help Cake Due Tonight Fondant Bow Dry Cracking Breaking What

Decorating By sunflowerfreak Updated 11 Jun 2006 , 10:54am by dky

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sunflowerfreak Posted 10 Jun 2006 , 1:38pm
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I have a cake due tonight-the bride is coming to look at a small cake with a fondant bow on top. I made the bow yesterday and had it drying overnight. I get up this morning and the bow loops are cracked, broken and very dry. There is no way I can use any of the loops. What can I do? I will need to make for fondant loops but how can I make it so it isn't so dry? And I will need to make the bow right away without giving the loops enough time to dry. Anyone have any suggestions? thanks

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cashley Posted 10 Jun 2006 , 1:42pm
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Can you put some gumtex in the fondant to help it dry faster? I don't know why they would crack unless your fondant was too dry to start with.

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shelain22 Posted 10 Jun 2006 , 4:10pm
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I saw in some instructions that you should put tissue paper in the loops to let em dry, could you just leave the tissue paper in the bow on the cake, and explain that it wont be like that on her cake?

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sunflowerfreak Posted 10 Jun 2006 , 4:25pm
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I ended up rolling out more fondant and making another bow. But it is very soft because I added a little water to the fondant. I think if I put tissue or something in the bows to hold it up it would stick to the bow. It doesn't look too bad. I will just explain that I needed to make another one because the other one was too dry and broke. thanks for your suggestions.

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dky Posted 11 Jun 2006 , 10:54am
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could you make a quick bow out of gumpaste... dries heaps faster than fondant

karen

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