Need Help Fast! Leaning Tower Of Cake!
Decorating By laurascakedesign Updated 20 Apr 2008 , 3:03pm by leily
I am making a small soda can-shaped cake for a birthday tomorrow. this is not my first sculpted cake, and i am at a loss as to what's going on. to make the can, i baked a 16" layer of cake and then cut circles out of it. i stacked and iced while the cake was frozen, and then iced the whole thing and let it thaw. when i got home today, i had the extreme leaning tower of cake!
it's so squishy and soft, whenever i tilt it back, it immediately falls right back over.
i think maybe my problem might be:
-too many layers, therefore too many layers of icing. maybe would make it soft, and collapse.
-i used duncan hines instead of BC, BC didn't have red velvet. I noticed when i got done baking and was "playing" with it, that the consistency of the cake was very frail.
*is there anything i can add to a box mix to make it more stable? butter, maybe, instead of oil?
Please please any suggestions would be awesome, i am going to redo it before Friday morning, but I want to get it right this time!!!
Did you dowel it? Did you have small cakeboards inbetween?How much icing did you put inbetween and how soft was that? I always bake from scratch and my cakes are pretty stable, but then I don't cut off the dome, but try to push it down, when it comes out of the oven, makes the cakes a bit more dense, but also more stable
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