I usually use flower nails as heating cores for my larger cakes, but I don't have them with me (or a real heating core) and was wondering if anything else would work... Has anyone tried cookie cutters? Would that even work? Or do any of you have any other ideas / suggestions? Thanks in advance for any tips!
I just coated it in cake release and popped it in there! Worked just fine. That sounds like a good idea! Maybe I will try that some time. I started baking before I saw your post, so I ended up using strawberry haulers that I bent to 90 degree angles and it worked great! And, no harm done, I just bent them right back into shape when I was done. And they slid right out of the cake so you can hardly tell where they were placed!
When I first heard about "heating cores" I didn't have a rose nail or the heating core you can get from Wilton.
I did use a piece of foil rolled up like a cigar and stuck that in the middle of the cake I was doing (a round ball shaped cake for the turkey cake in my pics) It worked just great. And another nice thing about it is that it leaves such a small hole too.
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