I'm not even sure how to search the forum for help to fix my silly mistake...
Yesterday I attempted to do the upside down method to ganache my cake (with cannoli filling).
I thought I was being clever to use my very wide lazy susan in the hopes of having plenty of room to scrape the sides of my cake.
Well...that lazy susan was heavier than I thought and my cake started to crack and smoosh.
So I quickly took it off, righted the cake, and tried to fix it.
I'm seeing ripples on the side of my cake now, even after I ganached. I'm guessing that's where there's the least amount of ganache.
My question is...I have acrylics I can use to add more ganache so it's a bit wider than the cake board the cake is sitting on. Would this solve (aka cover up) my ripple problem? I'm thinking it would, but I'm concerned about the integrity of the cake. Once the ganache is on, it should stay put, right?
I'm covering with fondant, so I really need to get rid of these ripples. And this is the bottom tier...but I'm not too concerned for the weight of the top, since I'm using the separator plate system (SPS).
TIA!
idk -- do you think the slices will serve ok? it sounds like it cracked right? i think if i had to use it and could not re-bake i would remove the ganache and check it out under there -- add buttercream to glue it together and re-ganache it-- what do you think -- maybe do a crumb coat and then more ganache
I'm quite certain the slices would serve ok. I sort of squished it back together before I finished coating the whole thing with ganache. I used ganache to damn around the cannoli filling too, but once ganache starts to come to room temp it gets hard, so I'm not 100% sure the cake glued back together. If I were to remove the ganache, what's the best way to go about doing that, now that it's been in the fridge?
slice it off -- i hope you have a nice long knife -- and i'd just get a pitcher of hot water and towel there too -- to keep the knife cleaned off if necessary -- to avoid any more cake trauma --
if you're less than 100% sure the cake glued back together that would affect the serving of it -- wouldn't it -- idk -- just depends on how deep the crack is -- if there is a crack -- and especially with that luscious filling -- you wanna know it's aok in there
please lemme know what you decide and how you're doing --
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