Should I Let The Iced Cake Sit Before Piping Black Icing?

Decorating By shelli38 Updated 1 Jul 2011 , 4:57pm by dmo4ab

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shelli38 Posted 1 Jul 2011 , 2:54pm
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I am making a wedding cake tomorrow. It will be white buttercream with black scroll-type piping and roses. I had one experience where my black icing bled into the white a few hours after I made it. I don't know what made that happen. Anyway, just want to make sure that doesn't happen to this cake.

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dmo4ab Posted 1 Jul 2011 , 4:57pm
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Yes, I would let the white icing crust first. Also, if you use choclate for the base of your black icing, then it doesn't require so much food coloring and is less likely to bleed.

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