How Do I Get The Powdered Sugar Off My Cake????
Decorating By bradleysmom Updated 2 Sep 2006 , 6:45am by pookster
I've just finished covering a cake in fondant and I had used icing sugar to keep it from sticking to the sheet I was rolling it out on. The cake is brown but now it's covered in icing sugar as well so it looks horrible. Anyone know how I get it off?
Thanks
I have no answer for you as to how to remove it. You can use a slightly damp paper towel to dissolve the sugar, but I cannot tell you what effect it would have on the fondant itself - probably streaks and shiny spots.
Most of us will agree that in the future, you should grease your work area and your rolling pin with a thin veil of shortening before rolling fondant. Not only will it avoid the powdered sugar residue, but it will also help prevent the fondant from drying out before you get it on the cake.
Theresa 
Try a soft paint brush and in the spots harder to brush off try Crisco to help dissolve and remove it..other than that I'm not sure what else you could do except maybe try using some brown coloring and try lightly painting over the areas with it.
well i'm no pro and definitely no expert, but it seems the paintbrush trick has worked for me in the past- somewhere i also read for coating pans to use cake mix instead of flour as it blends right in but i'd agree on the cocoa powder-
will have to try greasing the surface- cause I do find actually my problem with using icing sugar or cornstarch is that it dries out quickly (The MMF)
This is one of the real nuisances of rolling out fondant with icing sugar. You can go over it with a paintbrush and flisk as much as you can away - but you're likely to be still left with some. You can try sweeping it away with a very slightly damp paintbrush but if you get it too wet you will cause streaks on the finish.
I normally find if i brush the excess away with a dry paintbrush then just let the cake stand by the following day all traces of the sugar have vanished
Thanks for your help with this. I left it alone and the next day all the sugar had dissolve. The cake turned out great. It's the luggage cake in my photos.
I will also note that the RBC recipe I was using was greasy- which is gross and a pain in the butt- the only positive I can see is that it DID soak up the icing sugar quite nicely and leave no trace of it while rolling 
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