I use 1/2 butter and 1/2 butter flavored crisco in my buttercream recipe and everyone loves the taste. My problem is that once I get the icing very smooth (using viva papertowel method), then the icing will inevitably crack somewhere on the cake after I decorate and move it. Is this due to not using high ratio shortening and using the transfat Crisco? How can I correct this problem and still get a great tasting buttercream icing? Thanks for your advice.
most of the time when i have cracking it's because the cake is "bending" at some point during the transportation process. usually because the board or support under the bottom of the cake doesn't stay flat and flexes when you move it (why i always move bigger cakes on a piece of wood under the box or board). i've found the easiest way to fix this is heating up a small spatula with hot water, wiping it dry and going over the cracks very lightly. it should smooth them out very nicely and any tiny lines left from this that you don't like can be smoothed with a Viva!
We just talked about this - read this post:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-6747073-.html#6747073
Good luck!
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