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1:00 a.m. and my smbc is streaky. ugh

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2/3/13 at 10:11pm
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I am making a surprise bday cake for a family member.  It is covered in chocolate SMBC.  I wanted to get it really smooth so I let it set up in the fridge and then scraped it with a room temperature bench scraper. The SMBC became all streaky and looks awful.

 

How can I mimimize the damage?  I guess I could whip up another batch of icing in the morning and put on another coat.  I wasn't planning on covering it with fondant and really don't want to.  The cake it due tomorrow night.

 

Help! 

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post #2 of 3
2/3/13 at 10:25pm

Did you put anything else in the SMB? such as liquids or flaourings. Once I added coffee (dissolved in water) and that made my SMB go funny. Or did it melt? I'm not sure why it would be streaky. I would try bringing it back to room temp. then re beating it in your mixer.

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post #3 of 3
2/4/13 at 8:46am
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I think I know what happened.  My kitchen was really warm so when I took the cake out of the fridge and put my 'room-temp' scraper on it, it wasn't really room-temp, hence the melting.

 

I wrapped the entire cake in chocolate instead of scraping it all off and starting over.

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