So my cake turned out great. Its only a 2 stack cake,Bc with fondant decor. I set it up last night and everything held up just fine. Survived the 15 min delivery but when I looked at it while putting it on the table I noticed it bowing out where the filling is in the middle of the cake on both layers. Do you think it will fall over? Im sitting here worring myself to death over this.
Checklist
1. did you use a sturdy "pound " cake recipe?
2. did you use supports in the bottom layers? dowels? straws?
3. did you use cardboard under each layer and fondant layers seperately
4. did you use a damm and small amts of icing and filling?
5. did you roll your fondant as thin as possible for the cake?
Place cake in fridge now, you may be able to prevent further bowing.
It sounds like you might have used too much filling w/o enough of a dam to hold it in. Most likely nothing more will happen and it will be just fine.
As the other poster said, if you doweled it properly,& used cake board under to upper tier, there should not be a problem. ,
Well lets see if I can answer everything. I didnt use any fondant except for a small amount of circles and stars to decorate and a fondant cap on the top tier.
Im not sure about a pound cake recipe but I did get the one I used from a Wilton cake class. I made carrot cake for the bottom cake. I used pudding for the center with a double damn.
I used cardboard cake circles under the top tier and 6 "straws" for the supports. The straws I used were an extremely strong plastic. I had a very hard time cutting them with scissors.
I already delivered the cake and it looked perfect at home so it was during the drive that it started bowing. I was just worried that once I left all hell broke loose! lol
hmmm not sure if I let it settle long enough. I filled them and then crumb coated both of them and then buy the time I was done with the second one I went back to the first and then iced it. I would have just figured if it was that it would have happened overnight...How long should I wait before icing them?
I agree with Tiggy and Karen. You need to allow your cake time to settle before that final coat of bc.
As a rule of thumb, I put all my cakes into the freezer overnight. The cake not only has to settle, but cool all the way to the center or it won't hold up for heavier loads. When I take them out of the freezer, I allow 30 minutes or so then I cut off edges, dark places, tops and bottoms and torte them. All of my layers are cut so the final 2 cake layers, are actually a 4 layers with bc and looks nicer. That way you get away with using less bc, and having more layers to display it. It looks more elegent too, professional. Good Luck!!
Well everything went fine. She loved it and wrote very nice comments on my facebook about it!
I dont like icing the cake defrosted though.... but I am going to do a test cake to see how it goes. Thank you so much for all the responses!! Love learning new tips and tricks.
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