Help required (please don’t laugh)…
Well you can laugh a little – I certainly did…
This is my very first attempt at a ball/spherical/temari cake (not quite sure what the correct terminology is). I had some left over vanilla cake and thought I would do something different with it, instead of serving it to my kids with steaming hot custard and a dollop of raspberry jam. Maybe I should have just stuck with the custard and jam method…
Anyway, I also had some left over vanilla buttercream and thought I would give the ball cakes a go. I crumbled up the cake, added a small amount of buttercream, mixed and formed my balls. The ball cakes at this stage were perfect little rounds (honest – shame I didn’t take any progress pictures) and were placed in the fridge to rest. After about 30 minutes of relaxation time for both me and the cakes, I crumb coated with a small amount of buttercream. I let the cakes rest again to allow the buttercream to firm up. All was looking good until the next stage…
I rolled out my fondant and covered the ball cakes and no matter how much I rounded the fondant covered cake in my hands it soon turned in to a tea cake – so my question is how do I retain the lovely ball like shape when using crumbed cake and buttercream?
When I originally decided to make these ball cakes I had intended to decorate them by piping with royal icing. But as the concept had not worked and I had ended up with tea cakes I thought I would practice some hand painting. However, after hand painting they look more like paper weights than tea cakes. I used sugar flair gel pastes, a touch of vodka to thin out the colours and some 000 and 00 brushes to paint with. The photos were taken straight after painting.
Any comments to help improve my ball cakes and hand painting would be much appreciated.
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Mr. Yerner .. from Yerner’s way has some free tutorial’s posted here.. and he always takes melted chocolate and wipes and smooths it on the cake to help hold the shape .. it makes it firm.. I hope this is helpful :D
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Are you referring to “cake pops”??? I’ve never used buttercream, only white/chocolate and dip them several times to cover. I think if you wanted to decorate with RI, you could cover your chocolate covered pops in fondant, and hide the seam on the underside.
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I cover my cake pops with chocolate melts, but anyway, your pops looks great too
These are so pretty! Covering ball cakes are such a pain! :) ❤
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I usually dip my Cake balls a in melted chocolate / candy. Is that what you mean? I have a years and years old book from the cake ball company… are they what you mean?
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How big are these cakes in diameter? They look a lot bigger than a cake pop to me and I’m wondering if that is the issue? Cake pops are usually 2/3/4cm in diameter but these look more like a ball cake size.
When I’ve made a ball cake I bake it in a ball cake tin – so it is solid cake rather than cake crumbs and buttercream mix. I’m guessing that when you go bigger than a cake pop size with this mixture that the weight of the amount of fondant you use breaks it down when you start to smooth it perhaps?
Like the other comments above, with cake pops I dip in melted chocolate rather than cover in fondant.
Not sure if this helps – but love your painting! X
Judy
Thank you for all your comments. The look I was after are like these cakes (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cake+balls&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=675&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=X8gaVZauLoOY7ga994HIDg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=bauble+cakes&spell=1&imgdii=_&imgrc=BfqEBbCTEV8hMM%253A%3ByTlZKK21xMj4bM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F10%252FBauble-Beauties-778×1024.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk%252Fchristmas-bauble-cakes-recipe-bauble-beauties%252F%3B778%3B1024) not my cakes at all – but was hoping to get away with using left over cake to make something different.
My cakes were approximately 7cm in diameter, not cake pops. I did come across a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0wRFTX8kw) which made these using the cake pop method, but they did use chocolate cake so maybe that was the secret to their success.
Maybe I will give it another go with chocolate next time and if that fails will have to invest in a ball cake tin.
Thank you again for all your comments you guys are fabulous. xx
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