How long will it take for sugared fruit to dry and are there any tips on sugaring strawberries?
I have a grooms cake (and wedding cake) for Saturday and it has sugared fruit on it.
My problem is that my best friend is a photographer and I am her assistant. This poses problems for me because the wedding cake and grooms cake must be delivered and set up before pictures. In this cake the pictures start at 2:30 and the wedding isn't until 6:00. That means I have to set up the cake around 2:00 if not before. A long time I know
Is this going to be a bigger problem with the sugared fruit?
I have never even sugared fruit before so..........
please help!
I sugared fruit for the first time for a new year's cake. It was much easier than I expected.
I, too, posted the same question about how long they should dry. Overnight is good; but I did mine around 9 in the morning and left them out to dry. I put them on my cake at around 6 p.m. and they were great! I really liked them. I used blueberries, grapes and raspberries.
I washed them the day before and put them on a cooling rack to drain. My cake was white so to (hopefully) avoid the color bleeding, I put the fruit on using buttercream; I didn't just set the fruit on the cake. It worked wonderfully. The cake is posted in my pics; it's the new year's cake.
HTH!
When sugaring strawberries, you must start with room temperature berries that are absolutely dry. Don't even wash them, and don't cut or bruise them. I would do the strawberries no sooner than 2 hours before the event. Don't refrigerate them after you sugar them, either. The condensation could cause problems.
Hope this helps! 
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