Hi All
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I always use ganache to ice my cakes and then cover in fondant. I wait for the ganache to harden, but when removing the fondant, either before or after cutting the cake, it pulls the ganache off. Any help would be appreciated.
Do you mind me asking why you are removing the fondant prior to serving? If you stuck it on properly then it will be well adhered to the ganache and I would expect that it would do just as you describe?
Maybe I am missing something but if you made the cake with fondant wouldn't it be best to serve it with the fondant and if people didn't want to eat it they could just leave it on their plate.
Hi
Thank you for replying. My family and guests hate the fondant. If I serve the cake with the fondant, everybody takes off the fondant with the ganache that has stuck and leaves it on the plate, leaving no ganache on the cake. If I try to remove the fondant before serving, the ganache pulls off with the fondant and I'm trying to put the ganache back on the cake. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help.
the obvious answer is to not use the fondant -- but I mean you are maybe going for looks but in doing so --like you already know -- you're using an expensive wrapping that can't be enjoyed by your guests --
so one way would be to make extra ganache for them to put on their servings -- they might have fun with that -- and cut costs by using buttercream under the fondant --
for me -- I would want to make them something they would enjoy but I get your dilemma -- have to break out some buttercream skills
I agree with K8. I watched one of those cake competition shows, and one of the bakers made a purse cake. When she cut it to serve a piece to the judges, she pulled off the fondant and the judges told her it was poor etiquette to remove the fondant before serving the cake. It should always be left up to the person eating the cake. If you feel you still need to have ganache, have some in gravy boats or something the guests can use to pour or spoon over their cake.
please let me sail away on gravy boats of ganache
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