Inserting Objects Into Fondant Covered Cakes
Decorating By IBBaking Updated 2 May 2016 , 2:50am by IBBaking
Would anyone be able to tell me how to insert objects into fondant lets say snowflakes as if they're coming out of a cake or just slightly tucked into the cake. May be a no-brainer but I'm open for any ideas or suggestions I'm thinking a simple slit then pushing the snowflakes inside just to hold it into the cake will do.
Depending on how you're making them -- you could make an extra little tab on some of them so the whole snowflake would show even after you apply/insert it into the cake
If the snowflakes are to be flat on the surface, like, all points attached to the side of the cake, then I would just "glue" them on, and no need to worry about them going soft. If I have some fondant decorations that need to stick out, and have the opportunity to do on-site assembly, then I use picks, or tabs, to stick them in at the serving location. Helps with transport, too, to have them protected and dry in a separate case.
In my experience, they all will go soft, and may droop, if are refrigerated, or in contact with cake surface long enough. But I also had them to hold shape long enough to serve, the ones that I let REALLY harden over a long time. Then once the cake is cut, doesn't really matter. :-)
Even worse, is humidity. I had a wedding cake once nearly ruined, because the facility did not have adequate AC, and the choices were between a humid refrigeration, or hot and humid outside! Nightmare!
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