I have my first big wedding cake tomorrow. It is very hot and humid here and I'm having problems getting my icing smooth. I have a nice even layer of icing, but I just can't get rid of the lines. I've tried the spatula (the silver one for decorating) and a bench knife. I've tried hot water and I tried using papertowels and parchment, but it's just to hot/humid and the icing is staying sticky (it's in the fridge). I spent so much time trying to get it smooth and it's the middle of the night so I finally just gave up on it and did my doweling and got my cake stacked up. I'm decorating in the morning. Should I try to put another layer of icing on tomorrow or should I just leave well-enough alone. The cake is for someone I know and they got a really good deal on it so I think they will be happy but I just really wanted it to be perfect (and it isn't). The cake is very simple and doesn't have a lot of decorations on it so I can't really hide the imperfections. WHAT SHOULD I DO??
I'm sorry that it is causing so much trouble for you. It is really aggrevating when we try so hard to get a perfect cake and it just won't happen.
IMO, I would leave it alone and NOT put another layer of icing on. If it is already sticky, you will just have one giant glob of sticky icing on top of more sticky icing.
Can you stencil a design over it to make it less noticable? Add some flowers, scrollwork, or ribbon around it?
Good luck!
Tomorrow, don't examine it, just look at it from a distance like everybody else will. Often the more you look at your cakes, the more picky you become, then when you see it the next day it looks better than you remember. I'd leave well enough alone and go ahead and decorate it. You are the only one who is examining the cake at close range.
Thanks you guys. I was just thinking of taking it out of the fridge and messing with it some more, but I will leave it alone and take a look at it tomorrow. I wish it were for someone I didn't know and I could just drop it off and not have to worry about it. But my husband and I are actually staying for the reception, and I know I'm being totally crazy-looney but I just feel all this pressure like I'll be eating and I'll over hear someone say "Can you believe how horrible the cake looks" or something. I'm totally stressing out. I know I'm totally over analyzing this. I can't handle the pressure I think that wedding cakes are just not for me.
I know what you mean about wedding cakes....for me I stress about each one of them & it hasn't gotten better...I keep saying I'm going to give them up but I have a hard time saying no. 
Is it possible to post a pic of the cake so far so you can get honest opinions on whether you should reice. Of course you are probably working on it right now & don't have time, but make sure you post a pic when its done 
ge, I wish I could post a pictures but I think I'm the only one on earth that doesn't have a digital camera. Anyway, I do party cakes and enjoy it and knew that I don't have the temperment for wedding cakes and really had no desire to do one. This is how it happened. I'm at a church function and someone says I here you're doing another big cake, and I'm like what? And they say I heard you were doing a wedding cake. And I said I have no idea what you're talking about. And they said Kim so and so told them I was doing a wedding cake for so and so. So I go talk to kim and she kinds of laughs. She says that a lady that she works with who I've never met but we know a lot of the same people, anyway her daughter is getting married and I told her you'd make the cake. I almost died, I was like what??? She says, I gave her your number and she's going to call you. Anyway a million people I knew already knew about it and everyone was thinking I had already said I'd do it and I really felt like I couldn't say no. Who knows, maybe this is God's way of pushing me out of my comfort zone, because I would have never done it. On the decorating thing, The cake has cascading leaves down the front. The design they showed be just had a thin cascade, but I stayed up last night and made a ton more leaves and I just figures I'd cover more area to try to make the leaves more prominant and the background less noticable. Also I was going to only put 2 or 3 leaves on the top of the side cakes with the flower on top but now I might make those cascade too, what do you think?
The design they showed be just had a thin cascade, but I stayed up last night and made a ton more leaves and I just figures I'd cover more area to try to make the leaves more prominant and the background less noticable. Also I was going to only put 2 or 3 leaves on the top of the side cakes with the flower on top but now I might make those cascade too, what do you think?
Go for it! The fuller the more impressive, I think. Then, like you said, it will keep the eyes off the background which you are worried about (but probably looks fine.)
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