Hey everyone. I have a three tier sesame street cake to make soon and I have a few questions. My cake will be very similar to this:
But the Elmo tier and the Cookie Monster tier will be buttercream. I want to use "fur looking tips"...
This happened to me once, but mine was in the fridge, with smbc... I blamed it on the fridge which was going though. it was my last cake to go in that fridge anyway. I threw it out and rebaked/decorated it.
The grain you are feeling is coming from the Crisco.
I know because for a while I was using a different brand of shortening (not high ratio, it was just another brand of shortening that I wish I could remember the name since...
Thats odd. I never had any problems with Wiltons purple. I even prefer it over Americolors purple (which I rarely do with wilton) because its much more vibrant. Maybe you had a bad batch?