Simple Steps To Eliminate Cake Bulges

By AzWench

Ingredients

Preparation

Step 1

Let's take filling your cake for example.

Baking your cakes one day in advance will help with bulging filling.

Firm and settled cakes will support heavy, gooey fillings better than weak and unsettled cakes.

There is an actual procedure that promises to contain your fillings and keep them from overflowing their boundaries.

1) Pipe (with a #10 round tip or similar large size) an icing dam around the outer edge of each layer to contain the filling.

The dam will act as a barrier and will prevent the filling from escaping to the outer edge of the cake.

2) Cover your entire assembled cake with a crumb coat of a thinned version of your final icing.

3) Refrigerate your cake for 2-3 hours to allow for both the cake and crumb coat to firm up.