I am just looking for guidance and direction.  I made a unicorn cake with butter cream and when I tried to deliver it the mane, which was made out of buttercream fell off the side of the cake twice.  I thought maybe the icing was to heavy so I iced the side and replaced it with a more whipped icing and it still fell off.  I was thinking maybe the heat, I don't know.  Can someone help me figure this out and give me some direction of which way to go?

Thanks

Josette ([email protected]

This has been a recurring theme here lately.  I think the last big tip was to really push the piping into the cake to get it to stick.  What kind of icing are you using?

You have to really make sure that the piped icing is connected with the frosting covering the cake.  You do that by 1) making sure that the frosting covering the cake has not hardened/crusted over and 2) pushing your tip into the frosted cake so that the piped design has a good connection to the frosted cake and isn't just lightly touching the cake.  I would also make sure that you aren't piping on too many layers or swirls/rosettes because the weight could cause the icing to fall/break away from the cake.

I am using buttercream.  I tried to make it as light or whipped so that it would not be heavy for the side of the cake.

I will try to make sure the swirls/rosettes really connect the with the iced cake.  I may have made too many swirls and the weight caused it to break. I will also lighten up on the amount of rosettes.  Thank you both for your quick response and guidance.

Josette

I have no advice, just support as that happened to me a couple weekends ago too.  I had waited a day to add my mane to a frosted cake that had already crusted.  And I had a ton of flowers on there so probably waaaay too heavy.  It was so heart breaking after putting so much work into it!!! Trying again this weekend so I appreciate everyone’s advice too!

an idea is to angle the flowers too -- like pipe a fat blob of icing around the base of the cake -- start there piping flowers and stack them up more on top of each other as you wind up the sides -- helps a bit

Great idea with the angle Kate.  

thank you, kelbel

Thank you all for your comments and replies.  I was able to complete the cake again and delivered without any problem.

Josette

Yay!  So glad to hear that.  We would love to see a picture.  :)