I made a cake and piled on the buttercream filling. When the cake was cut, there was hardly any buttercream filling. I was very embarassed. It do happened that was at the party. I heard all night. The cake was good but there was no filling. Does anyone know why this happend?
What buttercream recipe did you use? (If you can provide a link to the recipe that would be great. If not, please give the complete recipe name and the site where you found it.)
Do you use a frosting dam:
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/filling-cake-layers.cfm
What diameter was your cake? How many cups of frosting did you use for filling (or how deep a layer of frosting did you put down)?
HTH
The only thing I can think of is that the cake layers were still warm when you filled and iced and the icing melted a little and was absorbed like a sponge into the cake itself.
Using a thick icing dam even when filling with buttercream is still a good idea. It allows for a thicker layer of filling and most importantly it will keep the filling where it belongs.
Sorry this happened, but it sounds like everyone still enjoyed the cake.
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