Help! Finished Fondant Pieces Stuck To Board

msimbot Posted 14 Sep 2017 , 4:35am

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Please help! I foolishly laid fondant pieces flat on two wooden boards and one marble board. There was some Crisco on the boards but nothing else. First my fondant is sooooo wet and I'm afraid it will never dry (MMF with maybe too much crisco?) but secondly and more importantly the pieces are stuck on the boards!!! Will they dry up and be removable?! I can't take em off now because they are too sticky and would definetly fall apart so I am praying they will lift up when harder. Does anyone have suggestions?!? Been working for six hours on these pieces....

kakeladi Posted 14 Sep 2017 , 10:43pm

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So sorry to hear of your problem. I have never had fondant either too wet nor stick to a board :( Fondant should be much like a thick cookie dough - never 'wet' enough to fall apart when they are laid out flat.....b ut then I don't use MMF. Have you tried to loosen them using a spatula like a pancake turner - flat/wide? Gently work it under them and turn them over after dusting the board rather well w/powdered sugar/cornstarch mixed.

remnant3333 Posted 15 Sep 2017 , 4:25am

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Don't know if this works but this is something I copied from internet. Maybe putting in oven like below will help.

How to Harden Fondant Quickly

Hello everyone! I stumbled across something recently while making a cake for my crafting challenge, and I needed my fondant to harden quickly. I read that, for the most part, you should add tylo powder to the fondant as you kneed it and that'll help it set faster. Of course, I had read this only after painstakingly carving out what I needed, and I didn't want to redo it all, and I don't have any tylo powder anymore anyway. So I was a bit stuck. But then I stumbled onto a few forum posts.

To harden fondant quickly after you've shaped it, you'll need the help of your oven, especially if you live somewhere humid. First of all, it needs to be said that heat will soften and even melt the fondant, so you don't ever want to put the fondant in an oven that is on. Instead, turn your oven on to a low setting and preheat it for 5-10 minutes. I have a gas oven, so I go for about half a gas mark at most and heat it up for 5 minutes. Once the oven is warm, I turn it off, then put the fondant in and set the timer for 10 minutes. The heat from the oven is dry, and it'll rid the fondant of moisture, and though the fondant is still soft when it comes out, it doesn't lose shape and it hardened up when it was allowed to cool for a few minutes. I've tried this with small and large pieces of fondant - small were my G.N.E.R.D.S. and large was the topping for a cake - and it's worked well, but the larger piece definitely took more time in the end.

If you're making a fondant flower or something with lots of bits, I'd dry the petals and leaves separately in the oven before attaching them together. Dry fondant can be stuck together with tylose powder and water or some royal icing which effectively makes an edible glue, or into some soft fondant that will be hidden in the centre.

I've heard other people say that turning the light on in the oven, but leaving the oven off at the same time, will also help. I don't have an oven like that, so I can't say for certain, but this pre-heating method works just fine for me.

kakeladi Posted 16 Sep 2017 , 8:36pm

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How did this work out ? Were you able to remove them from the board?

SandraSmiley Posted 18 Sep 2017 , 5:35am

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I tried drying a fondant covered cake board in the oven and the fondant buckled and had waves in it. It was still usable, but I'll never pull that stunt again! If you are able to work your pieces loose with a spatula, I suggest sliding them onto a piece of wax paper or parchment paper dusted with corn starch. That is how I always dry large flat pieces. I always use homemade marshmallow fondant, but when I am making decorations that need to dry, I add a lot of Tylose before cutting out the shapes. It helps them dry a lot faster. I cannot swear to this, but if you are unable to get them loose without damage, it is likely that you will be able to move them once they have dried.

msimbot Posted 22 Sep 2017 , 7:18pm

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@kakeladi ‍Hey there, thanks for your help on this one and sorry for the late response !i actually just waited two day until they were semi hard, so at that point putting a thin spatula under worked okay and didnt rip em! i was very lucky (though the cake got very messed up in transport...wooops!)

Help! Finished Fondant Pieces Stuck To Board

MBalaska Posted 15 Oct 2017 , 7:53pm

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@msimbot, a frying pan anti-spatter screen works pretty good for drying small pieces of fondant without sticking.

SandraSmiley Posted 16 Oct 2017 , 12:24am

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Your cake is as cute as can be, msimbot! Thanks for the tip on drying small pieces on a spatter screen, @MBalaska! Brilliant! Both sides can dry at once!