I have a 4 tier wedding cake this weekend, they ordered a cream cheese icing and dark navy blue fondant stripes will the stripes bleed into the cream cheese icing? Thank you, Dawn

Not that I know for sure, but I think if it's going to be a fairly dry day w/o too much humidity, I think you'll be okay. May want to try to layer the navy blue fondant on top of some white fondant or even have an excessive amount of powdered sugar on the back to help prevent any bleeding. Good luck.

I never saw colors bleed out of fondant ... but I never made it that dark ... nor did I ever put it on cream cheese. (Now I am wondering why I'm even bothering to respond to your question! LOL)

I had bleeding issues with some black and red fondant recently. My first mistake was putting small dots (m&m size and up) onto a BC cake straight out of the freezer - it is summer in Houston, after all! The dots were 'decorative warts and spots' on a 3-D frog cake. Needless to say, by the time we arrived at the function and took the cake out of the box, there were red and black (mostly red...hmmm?) streaky 'sweat' marks that made it look like leaking spots on the buttercream. I don't use fondant much except for small details that are added at the final step. Good luck on your cake. I might recommend that you pre-mix your navy color in several days in advance and let it 'absorb' into the fondant. I think that's why my black spots weren't as weepy as the red, which had been mixed right before we left....

The black cake in my photos was Black MMF over Buttercream (1/2 crisco 1/2 butter recipe) I put the fondant on the Buttercream right out of the fridge then it sat out for awhile while decorated, then put it back in the fridge for the night. It sat out about 1-1 1/2 hrs before served and I didn't notice any bleeding on the Buttercream.

Not sure if it would be different with Cream cheese icing.

Can you do a test run on a plate? Just spread some of your icing down the lay a strip of fondant over it? Do a test on the counter/in the fridge/in a hot room. Just to see what the effects will be.

HTH

Leily