Question About Refrigerated Fondant Cake
Decorating By skibunny5981 Updated 17 Mar 2017 , 2:02pm by jchuck
I'm making a 2 tier cake for my daughter's party tomorrow morning. Last night I covered the tiers with fondant and I put them in the fridge. The top tier is in a cake box and the bottom tier is in my tupperware cake carrier. (I only had one cake box). I peeked at them this morning and they both look fine. I need to put the final decorations on tonight. Do I need to let the cakes come to room temperature before I work on them tonight? When I let the cakes come back to room temperature do I take them out of their respective containers or leave them in? Should I put them back in the fridge tonight or leave them out overnight for the party tomorrow morning? I used American Buttercream under the fondant which uses all butter (no crisco) and a few tablespoons of heavy cream. Top tier is filled with vegan peanut butter filling and bottom tier is filled with oreo fluff filling which has a few tablespoons of heavy cream
Thanks in advance.
Take your cake out a couple of hours and let it get to room temperature. The cake in the box is fine. Take the other cake out of your carrier. Otherwise, while ciming to room temp, condensation will form, and have no place to go. Fondant will get gummy. As I said, your cake will probably sweat, look wet while getting to room temperature. Don't touch it, or you will leave marks. Eventually, it will dry out. I have a dehumidifier in my fridge, so that doesn't happen to my cakes. Add your embellishments when your cake is at room temp. Much easier to adhere to warm cake as opposed to cold. You don't need to put back into the fridge. Will be fine in a cool place without direct sunlight.
Are you transporting your cake?? If so, don't firget to put a centre dowel through the middle of your 2 cakes for stability. Right through to the cake board.
Hope this helps..
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