OK ladies! Big ol problem here! Please help!!!!

JaclynJ326 · #1 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

So I made a green butter cream two tierd cake last night for my best friends brothers 18th birthday. The butter cream set REALLLLLLLLYYYYYY

fast and it started to pull from the cake i tried heating up my comb and spatula with NO success. Finally I was able to get it to look half way decent and it just looked like i tried to make a stucco affect

...WEll the cake is for today and i just went home from work for lunch and the *&^#(*@ butter cream is CRACKING

!!!!!!!! Why is it doing this? Is there anything i can do to make it look better?!!! PLEASE HELP!!!

elizw · #2 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

what is your buttercream recipe and was the cake chilled or room temp?

how frustrating!!! just when everything is going great....

elizw · #3 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

also, what time do you need to take the cake to the party?

likitiki · #4 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

sounds like something happened with the recipe...... Also, what is the humidity like there?

elizw · #5 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

do you have any icing left over? can you send a pix real quick?

JaclynJ326 · #6 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

Sorry i left out details...Well in Cali we have been having some record breaking highs and tomorrow a record breaking low. Very wierd weather...Kind of like earthquake weather

...Anyways. I get off work at 5 and i get home at 5:30 just enough time to change and take the cake to the party....I used a butter cream thaty I bought from a local cake supply store that i have used before. My mother in law thinks in might be the coloring, I used the Wilton (dum, dum, dum) gel colors...

elizw · #7 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

is the cake room temp now or is it in your fridge?

JaclynJ326 · #8 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

Now it's room temp...When I frosted it, it was frozen like i always do...

elizw · #9 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

we you get home can you smooth over again? after you smooth it, can you pipe a design around the cake? swirls, circles, squiggles??? i like to pipe (#5 tip) wavy stripes around the sides of a cake to give some spunk. you can do it in the same green or a different color. uuuuggghhh! i hate it when things take a turn like this!!

JaclynJ326 · #10 (**permalink**) April15th, 2008

Ok, my fiance is at home and just sent me a picture of the cracks...Here it is. I can't do swirls or anything like that it's a boys cake and my friend said absolutely no swirls or anything of that nature! CRAP!