Will Chocolate Frosting Hold Up In Warm Weather
Decorating By lllski Updated 20 Jul 2006 , 11:45pm by Phoov
I am making my daughters wedding cake next Saturday. She has selected a cake covered in choclate frosting with chocolate truffles. She is having an outdoor wedding. The cake will be inside but there isn't air conditioning. The temps have been around 80-85 degrees lately and I am getting a little nervous about the chocolate not melting. I have made many buttercream frosting cakes with crisco that hold up but have never worked with chocolate icing. I would love any feedback on this. Thanks a bunch. Lori
There is a chocolate buttercream recipe that is really good, maybe because it is crisco it will hold up better to the heat. I've never done a chocolate cake for a outside event before, but my dora cake that I did: I attached the stars to the sticks with chocolate and then it hardened and I didn't think anything of it, but once i took it to the event, the chocolate started to get warm and melt and the stars were starting to slide down the sticks. It's just a total guess but the chocolate buttercream might be safer.
The truffles will suffer greatly in the heat. If you can keep the cake chilled until the very last minute, you might get away with it.
However, be prepared for melted truffles, with spoons or some other utensil to allow you to move them. They will be too soft to pick up.
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