First Wedding Cake Advice...

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Permalink Reply by Anne M on January 26, 2011 at 1:33pm

Very nice.  What kind of cake was it?

Meera said:

Hey ladies,

 

SO here is the final cake, and the picture!  Very proud of how this came out :) our first of course!!

 

Some questions I had and problems we ran into that perhaps you can help with for future cakes!!

 

1.  Cake was due on Friday night (but to be eaten on Saturday), so we decided to baked and frosted/fondanted on Wednesday night.  Left the cake in a cake boxes.  The bottom and middle tier were stacked.  The top tier was on it's own.

 

2.  Friday we delivered and setup the cake - we noticed on Friday night when we took the cake out of the box that the bottom tier at the bottom had kinda sunk a little, like the top tier was too heavy for it or something.  But we had 12 thick plastic dowels secured on the bottom cake to ensure the middle tier did not make it too heavy.  So what do you think was the cause of this to happen??

 

We also noticed that the bottom board had a little oil stain like the cake was leaking or something!! Ha ha...

 

3.  The cake was for Saturday so my friend mentioned to me that the fondant had gotten a little hard by then, not it's nice softness as day 1!!! I freaked out...i was like omg people ate hard fondant!!! eeeks!  So what caused this? We had covered the cake at all times overnight ...either in the box or like a plastic bag cover.  Is this wrong??

 

Other then that...it was a challenge but lots of fun.  It's a simple design but our first!

 

Your thoughts and advice would be great!!! :)

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