I hate the border I just put on my cake tonight. I was trying to do a string of dots for the border (like shells but with tip 7), but it just doesn't look good. I was wondering if I wait until tomorrow morning, if I could scrape it off and redo it. I think I'll just do individual dots this time. My thinking is that the buttercream would be hard in the morning and come off more easily than tonight. Has anyone else scraped off a border? (If it matters, the cake is white and the border is red.)

Thanks!

If you have a crusting bc, then it should be able to come off fairly soon. If you leave it too long, the red will bleed into the white. Either way, if you take it off now, there may be an area you will have to cover - you'll just have to make your new border a little bigger than the original. I remove borders and sections of borders all the time - but I use a crusting icing. That will make all the difference. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply! When I looked at it this morning, I decided it didn't look as bad as I thought, so I left it. I do use a crusting buttercream, so next time I'll know if i need to scrape it off. I'm putting a photo of it in my photos. Close up, it still isn't perfect, but my husband said it looks good. I'm just looking through my decorator eyes and I'm entirely to picky about my own cakes!!