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Hey ladies,

 

Question while i was making my first fondant cake...one of the things I made was a crown.  So i added gumpaste to the fondant and made the crown and let it sit to dry.  But i noticied that it started to crack in all sorts of places (and obviously I was freaking out)!! I couldn't get a smooth look to the crown.  I tried sticking the cracks together with water and that didn't work!!

 

I did manage to get the crown safely onto the cake, but for future cakes could you help me understand why the cracks would occur? Is there something I am doing wrong??

 

Cheers!!

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Meera - that's a pretty thick piece of fondant/gumpaste, so my guess is that the weight of it was pulling it apart as it was draped over your mold to set up. This is just a guess, however. You may want to go a little thinner next time? You can actually go quite thin with the 50/50 and it will set up nice and hard (it will, however, be more brittle so you'll need to handle with care).
Hey...no it was not homemade fondant, it was the Goldas Kitchen brand....

I thought if i made it thicker it would not crack, and it was 50/50..... I did make one that was quite thin but that one started cracking too so i got nervous and made it really thick!!! loL! So next time i make an in betweeny!!

Cheers
Try adding a little more Crisco ~ looked a little too dry.

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