How Do You Flip Your Cake After With A Flower Nail?

Decorating By mareg Updated 6 Oct 2007 , 4:33pm by mareg

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mareg Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 1:06pm
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I always seem to tear the cake a little when I use the flower nail. Is there any good tips to use so I don't tear the cake?

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vdrsolo Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 1:29pm
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I always use flower nails, and use multiple flower nails in large cakes. Never had one tear on me.

Make sure that the flower nail is greased & floured just like the pan. I use homemade pan grease on both my pan and nails.

When you flip it out of the pan onto the cooling rack, there is just enough clearance with the cooling rack legs for the nail to clear. Just take a fork, and pull the nail out.

It's really simple.

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8Tracie8 Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 1:33pm
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I was going to say the exact same thing so..... ditto.

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mareg Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 1:34pm
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Maybe I need to prop up my cooling rack so the nail wont push against the cake pan and rip the cake. Thanks for the idea!

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vdrsolo Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 2:01pm
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Put the cooling rack on top of the cake, make sure that the flower nail is going through a hole in the cooling rack.

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vdrsolo Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by mareg

Maybe I need to prop up my cooling rack so the nail wont push against the cake pan and rip the cake. Thanks for the idea!




does your cooling rack not have legs on it? Even if it doesn't, just the depth of the rack itself should be sufficient, I use 2 1/4"nails. If you don't have legs on your cooling rack,perhaps try just 2" nails.

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mareg Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 2:31pm
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Yes the rack does have legs but the nail always pushes and turns. I didn't know they made shorter nails!

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Teekakes Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 2:50pm
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Originally Posted by vdrsolo

Put the cooling rack on top of the cake, make sure that the flower nail is going through a hole in the cooling rack.




This is what I do.........and then turn the whole thing over and remove the nail with a fork.

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marthajo1 Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 2:59pm
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You can also set it on top of a larger cake pan that will support the cooling rack steadily and you don't have to set up "props"!

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Danielle111 Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 3:15pm
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Thank you so much for posting this thread - I haven't used a flower nail yet, and was wondering exactly how to do it!

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mareg Posted 6 Oct 2007 , 4:33pm
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Its been an ongoing problem for me. I'm to to point where I hate the nails. They come out easy. I just hate the way they turn and move tearing the cake. I'm going to prop up the rack next time!
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