OK, I'm on my second set of spider webs - made of RI - for a Spidey cake due late tomorrow. I'm making them on wax paper but they are cracking when I remove them. I can get around the ones that belong on the cake but a large one is supposed to go on top also...ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED 
This will seem crazy, but lightly smear the waxpaper with shortening. Quite a few of the top decorators use this method when they have to pipe on waxpaper.
let me give you 20 bumps b/c i had the same exact problem with my sons spiderman cake last month i made all the ri spiders to put on the sides of the cake and everytime i took one off it would break a leg or something so i just lovingly threw them all in the trash can and let it go b/c it looked good w.o them . check it out in my pics
I read a neat trick from a fellow CC member dealing with RI decorations breaking. They said to use the edge of a counter(or something similar) and slide it so you are pulling the paper down off of the decoration, instead of pulling the decoration up off the paper. They also mentioned to make sure to have your other hand ready to catch the decoration, so it doesn't fall to the ground. I hope I worded that so you can understand it. Basically, removed the paper from the item, not the item from the paper, no stress on the decoration that way. HTH some, Jen
i think you can add some corn syrup to you icing and it helps it not to break
hi everyone - ALL of the new ones I made at 3 a.m. broke later Sunday morning...I didn't have time to make new RI webs and let them dry in time to deliver so I made them from candy melts. Duhuh...cannot believe I didn't think of that. They worked well, until I delivered the cake and my customer told me that her AC went out on the first floor! AGH! I found out today that all went well! Candy melts were a life saver.
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