This is what refrigeration does to gum paste. I am not even sure I can salvage the cake dummies.
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Thank you for your kind words! No, the building was air conditioned. The damage was due, as best as I can determine, to the refrigeration alone. These are the photos which were made after the fair. All of the damage, Becky, is to the gum paste flowers and feathers on the macaws. Of course, when the gum paste melted, it stuck all over the fondant, so it is ruined, too. Otherwise, the fondant was unharmed.
Thanks, June. Doesn't even bother me anymore.
When the flowers melted, they fell all over the fondant and turned or concrete. I do not know if I can clean it off or not. Also, moisture settled all along the top of each tier and it looks wet (but isn't). I really think it would be easier to just start over. Even the base is ruined. The brown sugar (sand) looks as though it was soaked and is now melted concrete. All of the damage did not take place in one night. The fair folks were putting it in the refrigerator EVERY night after the fair closed. Bless their hearts, it had already been there five days when I saw it and told them it should not be refrigerated, so it got a few good doses LOL.
Yikes. I have put cakes in the refrigerator overnight with gumpaste flowers but they have always been covered. How terrible
OH MY...Would you just look at that! OUCH!! Sweet Sandra...,Now I can just about imagine how you felt when you first saw this. Devastation comes to mind. If they had only put something over it, to keep the moisture from settling on it. I only put fondant in the fridge, if it is in a box that is lying on it's side, that way the top, rear, & both sides are covered. The only open side, the top of the box, is facing out so I can slide the cake in. I have never had any problems with this arrangement. But then hind sight is usually 20-20. I have a collection of different sized boxes for just such occasions. And I build them out of boxes to meet a need, as it arises.
Looks like the bottom tiers made out pretty good. or am I not seeing something that I should? The bodies, heads, & beaks do look savable from here. If anyone can do this repair, it is you.
No biggie, Betty. I did it for experience and I got what I wanted. And, the poor volunteers at the fair learned something, as well....do not refrigerate gum paste. They were pretty heart broken that they had destroyed it by trying to take special care of it.
Since I don't work with this medium I didn't know this would happen. So sorry.
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