Cake Due Friday Night; Can I Cover With Fondant Thursday?
Decorating By WebDiva Updated 11 Jun 2006 , 1:05pm by cindww
I'm doing a cake (for my SIL) for a party on Friday night. I'm going to be working Friday, so I want to do as much as possible in advance. I'm baking the cakes and freezing them today and I've already made loops for the bow. I am using regular decorator's buttercream from TG's book and covering that with fondant, so I don't think there will be a problem with it sitting out overnight, but I'm not sure.
Will this be ok or should I leave work early to do the fondant part?
The last cake I did was covered with fondant. They wanted it for Saturday afternoon, but could only collect it on Friday morning, I baked & finished it Thursday afternoon. I put it in the fridge though as it's about 27C here at the moment and I used an all butter chocolate buttercream for filling and as a thin covering under the fondant. She contacted me yesterday after the party - the cake and fondant were perfect, no condensation problems or anything, so I think you'll be fine!
this topic is being discussed in another thread here and everyone says it's alright to make a fondant covered cake 2-3 days in advance, so I think it would be fine to go ahead. 
webdiva, you should be absolutely fine covering it in fondant a day earlier. Make sure you cover the cake completely, that there aren't any bits of cake showing..although it would probably be fine the next day even if you did. The fondant creates a covering for the cake that keeps the cake fresh.
Cindy
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