Help With Transfering Cake To Finished Board
Decorating By cakerator Updated 24 Aug 2006 , 12:47pm by Sumer
Help! 
i am doing a hawaiian shirt cake for a clam bake wedding reception in a few weeks. i'm trying to plan it out a little before i do it and i've come across a
little snag.
my issue is this... i have a large piece of foamcore board that i will be using as a cake board. the actual cake is going to take up about 2/3 of the board and the remaining surface is going to be covered in a thin layer of royal icing and then "sand" (graham cracker crumbs) with a few chocolate shells. i want it to be neat and clean so i would rather frost and fondant cover the cake on a separate surface and then 'somehow' transfer it to the finished sand covered cake board. does anyone have any suggestions on how i can do this?
thanks
Another way to transfer might be to use a cookie sheet (the kind with no lip, just a flat sheet) and slide it under the finished cake and transfer to the board. You could "slide" the cake off gently, onto the cakeboard and finish with touching up there.
I tried something similiar to what the last poster wrote but it didn't work. I had a 8" square cake I was doing in black (for a "Matrix" the movie cake) and didn't want to do it on the presentation board. Well I can tell you now it was horrible trying to move and I nearly ruined the icing.
I'd say go with the parchment/wax paper under the edges or using a board the same size as the cake. With the latter though, I'd put a dollup of icing to hold the boards together.
Ummm, if it was me I would be doing it directly on to the board it was intended to be on, you could leave a small boarder around the cake then take the sand up to the cake after you had iced it. The next best thing I would do is a cake board the same shape as the cake and with a dollup of icing under it transfer it direct to the other board.
Kerrie
The cookie sheet works well for me.....and it helps to freeze the cake slightly before moving it from the sheet. The only problem with using the parchment paper is that you might mess up the things already on the board when you put it down or go to remove it. Are you trying to put the cake on a board where you will already have decorations? If so, the paper might mash those or mess them up. If you put the paper down FIRST, and decorate the board later, that would work fine. One issue that I have always had with tucking the paper under the edges is that sometimes it messes up the edges when you go to remove it.....no matter HOW carefully you do it.....
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