Help! Sugar-paste dilemma!!!?!
I am making the cake for my daughters wedding. She has chosen to have a friutcake for the bottom layer and chocolate sponge cake for the top two layers (she doesn't like fruitcake or marzipan!). But she wants all the cakes covered in ivory coloured sugarpaste/fondant. My question is... as the sponge cakes won't have marzipan will the chocolate sponge discolour the icing and what would the best way be to avoid this happening?
Many thanks in anticipation!
Answers: Can any cake decorater give me some advice please?
I am making the cake for my daughters wedding. She has chosen to have a friutcake for the bottom layer and chocolate sponge cake for the top two layers (she doesn't like fruitcake or marzipan!). But she wants all the cakes covered in ivory coloured sugarpaste/fondant. My question is... as the sponge cakes won't have marzipan will the chocolate sponge discolour the icing and what would the best way be to avoid this happening?
Many thanks in anticipation!
The chocolate should not discolor the icing, but if you're covering it with fondant, you should always frost the layers with buttercream frosting first before you apply the fondant. This frosting layer helps the fondant adhere to the cake. An extra benefit for you is that it will cover the chocolate layer before you apply the fondant.
I don't think it will but I would make a small chocolate cake and cover it with the fondant to see if it will discolour. Just to be on the safe side.
If you use apricot jam to stop marzipan 'bleeding through' to icing, why not use it on chocolate - although I'd like to experiment first JUST to make sure I'm not talking rubbish !
How much of her wedding cake is your daughter going to eat? if you make the chocolate cake with cocoa powder then it will discolour the fondant, apricot jam will not help but egg white brushed on and left to dry may seal the cake, add another layer to adhere to icing to
Just use an extra layer of sugar paste.! I wouldnt try missing it out altogether, it would probably discolour.