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Making 1st wedding cake - need help stat!

post #1 of 11
10/12/12 at 6:36am
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Hi all,
I am making my first wedding cake and I need help!!

Last night I filled torted and filled the cake - 3 layers filled with raspberry filling. I let it sit overnight wrapped up in Saran so I could let it set and avoid the dreaded 'cake fart'.

BUT - today a big of the filling has snuck out of my buttercream dam! Not much, just a bit - but I'm really afraid it will keep seeping out! AND on top of this, as the cake set (and seeped!) it became slightly lopsided.

How do I fix these issues?

I'm kinda freaking out - this cake is for my brothers wedding, and bringing a lopsided cake that seeps filling is not an option!

PLEASE HELP! (And thanks in advance!)
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post #2 of 11
10/12/12 at 11:32am
Fist, did you weight the cake for settling?

But truly, there's too much filling in it.
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post #3 of 11
10/12/12 at 11:55am
Next time use raspberry jam. You can even boil it with raspberry jello to stiffen it some more, if you need a thicker layer.

Pie filling is only good for one tier cakes less than 12" because in bigger cakes, the weight of the layers themselves cause enough pressure to do this.
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post #4 of 11
10/12/12 at 2:56pm
there are many factors that can cause your problem. Were the layers leveled? How did you torte - where the cuts level?
At this point I would suggest you take the tiers apart and re-pipe your dam - & maybe scrape a bit of the filling off so there is none higher than the dam.
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post #5 of 11
10/13/12 at 6:02am
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Thanks all, I ended up taking the cake apart and taking out some filling and redoing my dam. I let it sit for about 4 hours to make sure it wouldn't happen again and then covered the cake. It's still standing and no bumps or bulges! (Phew!)

(And no, I didn't weight the cake when I let it sit overnight. Should I have? I thought you did that when you didn't have the time to let it set for very long...)
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post #6 of 11
10/13/12 at 8:00am
I am not sure how an online store that sells clothing and accessories is supposed to help, nkjfsdiu!

RE: ORIGINAL POST
As others have indirectly mentioned, your filling may have been too "runny". Your icing dam could also have been not stiff enough or not high enough. I am glad it seems to have worked the second time. Even if you don't "weigh" the cake down, I always use some pressure on top of the cake as I stack each layer to help it settle...and I never ice immediately. Allowing a little time in between helpsicon_smile.gif
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post #7 of 11
10/13/12 at 8:01am
Make sure you post a picture of your first wedding cake! You go girlicon_smile.gif
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post #8 of 11
10/14/12 at 11:11am
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Here's the finished product! (Sorry, file is too big to attach here...)

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2419027/fall-wedding

I'm pretty happy with it, but I think I had bad mojo on this one cause my new bucket of fondant that I bought was kinda crappy. It had crystalized balls of power that were not mixed in properly and I had to roll our my fondant and then pick all the darn things out and the re-roll it! Grrrr!!
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post #9 of 11
10/14/12 at 12:14pm
It looks great! Good for you for having the courage to take it apart and make it right! Your brother is lucky to have such a nice cake (and sister) at his wedding!
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post #10 of 11
10/14/12 at 1:28pm
Tha cake turned out wellicon_smile.gif Most people don't realize how much work can go into making what LOOKS like a simple cake.
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post #11 of 11
10/14/12 at 6:38pm
When letting cake settle overnight, I still have to weight it down?
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