Humidity
Oh I know I go on about this, but if anything is going to get my goat (or four legged animal of your choice) it's humidity.
I can can cope with the odd breakage, a cake that didn't rise right, colour on my hands, spilling glitter everywhere, but these things are controllable, but humidity is the one thing that I have little hope of controlling (unless someone wants to give me an airconditioner or dehumidifier)
It stops your flowers from drying properly, makes the fondant shiny and decorations slide off, it makes figures look like something that Dali made and causes me to use language with adult themes!
It is the bane of cake decorators everywhere. Oh I know there are 'workarounds' like adding tylose, or more icing sugar, working later in the evening when the humidity has dropped etc etc, but in the end, humidity is lurking there at the edges. It is an ambush predator waiting for it's time to strike. Rushing up from the depths like a meterological white pointer that rips the limbs from that figure you worked so hard to model, ravaging the cake you took so long to design and put together.....sigh
Winter come back, all is forgiven!
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Comment by Bettina Dwyer on February 22, 2012 at 10:51pm
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Thanks Theresa. I know we all have a lot of different ways to deal with this problem. What's worked for other people?
Some of the things I do to overcome humidity:
work later at night when humidity has dropped (by this stage the kids are in bed and I can work undisturbed by phone calls as well)
add tylose to the fondant (1 tablspn to 500gms fondant)
Add a bit more icing sugar (confectioners sugar)
Make flowers and figures and put into a box with a dessicant (crystal (silicon) kitty litter, silica gel etc)
Work on your cake and then put it into a cupboard or a large box with dessicant
Use a fan to blow over your cake
Place in a oven with only the oven light on overnight
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Comment by Theresa Happe on February 22, 2012 at 8:40pm
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Cover your cakes with a mixture of 3/4 fondant, 1/4 gum paste and it will solve a few of your humidity problems.
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Comment by Tiffany Whitson York on February 22, 2012 at 5:55pm
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I agree. I bought a small portable(on wheels but still bulky) dehumidifier from our home depot for about $100 to help keep our basement dry in spring, but works great for the kitchen as well.it is well worth that money if i am not fighting the frustration of humidity and my marshmallow fondant!
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