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Q&A: Icing sugar on fondant! How to remove?

Hi All,

I have made quite a few cakes now and only a few have cracked a bit.
I recently made a cake and when I covered the cake with the fondant it made little cracks on the sides of the cake. Because of the powdered icing used to roll it out it got stuck in the cracks and left the fondant with white cracks.

How can I get rid of them and how do you take all the powdered from your cake?
Do you steam it in some way or what do you do???

If you can just get rid of all the icing it would look so much better.

Hope someone can help me with this.

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Answers

June ("Clarky's Cakes") answered over 2 years ago

You can carefully go over the cracks with a bit of alcohol which will remove the icing sugar. Alcohol will then evaporate. Then rub in some shortening, very gently with your fingers. Fondant will absorb the shortening. If your fondant is smooth and elastic, it shouldn’t crack. But some fondants despite what you do, develop cracks. There is a great way to hide cracks/splits. It’s gunge. Recipe and instructions are here. https://thebakemore.blogspot.com/2017/03/gunging-sugar-spackle-that-hides-all.html

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Sandra Smiley answered over 2 years ago

I use shortening for rolling out fondant. Spread shortening (Crisco, Trex) very thinly onto the rolling surface, then wipe most of it away with a paper towel. If you use sugar, however, and it leaves a residue, you can lightly steam it and the sugar will disappear.

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