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Comment by Lisa J McCammond on May 31, 2010 at 8:11pm

Most of my chocolate cakes have chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream but then when that crusts I use a little white buttercream on the edges, does that make sense. You don't have to limit the client to a white frosting with chocolate cake, you can use chocolate buttercream or chocolate ganache, just let it crust and coat the edging with a white buttercream to protect where the fondant will sit along the edges and corners as that is the area that is most likely to show through. Most of my cakes end up being chocolate on chocolate or Red Velvet on chocolate with white fondant so have had a lot of practice. If you look at my three tiered with the orchids it is all chocolate with chocolate ganache and thin white fondant pearlized. It works great. Good luck.

Comment by Dia on May 31, 2010 at 6:31pm

Thanks for the advice! I did put a layer of buttercream icing over the cake before I put the fondant on. I'll put a thicker layer of buttercream instead of making the fondant thicker!

Comment by Lisa J McCammond on May 30, 2010 at 10:41pm

I don't use MMF, but another option, rather than using thicker fondant, which creates other problems. The weight itself can cause tearing you will find, is to try putting some white frosting along the top edging of the cake to prevent any of the chocolate showing through along the corners or edges where it would most likely show through when using a normal white fondant. I use Chocopan, and a homemade White Chocolate Fondant made from gelatin, inverted sugar, cocoa butter, etc. that I really like. Duff Goldman's product has a pretty nice vanilla flavor also. Anyway, you might try the frosting trick. Just a thin amount right in those spots is what I do to prevent that if that is any help.

Comment by Eileen S on May 27, 2010 at 8:20pm

I usually put a thick layer of white buttercream between the cake and the fondant when I make chocolate cake. If you look at the wedding cake I made (yes, the only one so far), the bottom layer is oreo cake and so is the top layer.