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doleta
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Joined: Sep 24, 2006
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Location: Oklahoma
Birthday: Jul 15

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:18 pm

Buttercream is Cracking!
1/2 sheet cake. She will be here in 30 min! Surprised

We have it on 2 cake boards but the BC cracks every time we move it.

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yellobutterfly
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Joined: Sep 18, 2005
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Location: Hot Texas
Birthday: Oct 31

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:24 pm

I know this probably doesn't help much now, but I notice when I use too much water (while smoothing, in a spray bottle or spatula, etc) my bc cracks. I've also heard that using an all shortening icing cracks more than one that has part butter. hth

doleta
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:26 pm

It was part real butter. No water used in smoothing. We want to cry! Crying or Very sad

slejdick
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Joined: Oct 20, 2005
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Location: Cincinnati OH

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:29 pm

See if you can get another layer of something under the cake boards. If moving it causes the icing to crack, then the board isn't stiff enough.

If you have any large corrugated cardboard pieces, you might be able to cut another cake board, with the corrugations running the other direction (or even two more, each in a slightly different orientation) to keep the board from flexing under your cake.

Good luck!

Laura.

Molly2
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:39 pm

The same thing happend to me this week with a sheet cake I put another piece of cardboard under my cake it seem to stabe the cake and it helped I had no more crackes

Molly2

fmandds
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Joined: Mar 25, 2006
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Location: Utah
Birthday: May 08

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:43 pm

I've also read that the cracking is why some people don't like crusting buttercream recipes. I guess it doesn't happen in non-crusting recipes. But it also could be not enough support from the cake boards.

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