Need Advise On A Few ?'s
Decorating By branbrielliott2 Updated 12 Sep 2007 , 4:06pm by branbrielliott2
Ok I am doing 2 cakes boy/girl twins, one barbie one dino..
I have alot of work to do...
how early can a bake the cakes...
after crumb coat where can I store..
how early can I deco and do I need to cover...I would like to have all done in a few days but I will have one done early or bits and pc's over a few days...in the end I would like to have them both done the night before but I dont want them to dry out or fade...
I might use mmf on the barie one also...how will that affect sitting int he frige should it be covered...and any tips on it not cracking.
Thanks so much.
I cant help much, but there is one question I can answer! 
You wont want to put your fondant in the fridge unless necessary...(your filling needs to be refrigerated or something). When you take it out of the fridge, the fondant will sweat leaving you with water spots. Some people have done it, but set it infront of a fan for a couple hours as to evaporate the water faster...hope that helps ya!!
If your fondant it cracking, you can add a little more crisco to it before placing it on the cake. I have no idea about if it cracks after you've put it on the cake!
You can make your cakes on Thrusday, if you need them for saturday. Bake the cakes, let them rest for 15, unmold, and to avoid loosing humidity, I put them back in the mold and cover with plastic wrap. The day I am going to cover them I take them out of the mold I pult the base and cover the cakes. I hope this is clear, if not tell me. In my pictures you can see a chocolate cake with a face, I dont remember the name, and it is done with fondant and painted with gel icing color mixed with vodka, rum. YOu have to let dry the piece of fondant in which are you going to paint, 1 cm wide, for 3 days and them transfer the design, delign with black marker and paint, then when ready transfer to the cake. It is better if you dont put the cake covered with fondant in the frid¡ge it will get moist. Grace
You can bake the cakes now and freeze them - wrap in plastic wrap and then thaw on counter with wrap on for the day you will decorate. Freezing is a great time saver!
You could crumb coat 2 days in advance. If you use regular BC, you could leave it out. Otherwise, refridgerate until you put the MMF on.
when I crumb cake do I cover when I put back in the frige? then I am going to deco one cake almost completly...how do I cover etc and just sit in frige till the next morning then I can just work on the other one that might get the fondant???
I just dont want anything to mess up but I wont have time to do both the day of party and also I will being doing these at night so my twins dont see them also....or they will never get done.
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