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Vintage Car Cake—Urgent help needed Please
hi, my question is regarding the vintage car cake—i have made the tyres two days ago but they still arent dried—what do i do? i need to assemble the cake by Saturday night; Please help. i used all fondant for the tyres; we dont have tylose here; your most urgent help is needed please…thanks
hi, my question is regarding the vintage car cake—i have made the tyres two days ago but they still arent dried—what do i do? i need to assemble the cake by Saturday night; Please help. i used all fondant for the tyres; we dont have tylose here; your most urgent help is needed please…thanks
Hello alliya
I’ll try and help if I can. I don’t think the fondant will dry for Saturday but here’s a few things you can try to help it along and some alternatives if it doesn’t dry in time.
1. How wet are the tyres? If they are setting up there is a slim chance they will be dry enough to mount on the car by Saturday. If you have an oven with a light, you could put the tyres in the oven with just the light on. The heat of the light will help dry the fondant out. If you have an anglepoise lamp place the tyres under the lamp. The heat from the lamp will dry the fondant better than an oven light. A warm cupboard is another option. Any of these warm drying ways will require for the tyres to be turned to ensure equal drying.
2. Alternatively you could dry the tyres in the oven on the most lowest setting, the oven door should be left ajar. If you do this you’ll need to baby sit the fondant to make sure it is dry and keep turning it as before to ensure equal drying. In each case place the fondant tyres on parchment paper.
3. An easier way would be to make the the tyres with cake! Make a small deep sheet cake and cut out the rounds to the same depth as the fondant tyre. There is no need to tort and fill. Chill the cake rounds in the freezer to firm them up. Mark the centre of the round with a rolling pin just as Paul did in the tutorial to make the indent. Ganache the rounds and let them set then cover in black fondant. Press again with the rolling pin to re-define the indent set aside to dry before proceeding with the next stage of the tutorial. If you find the cake does not indent sufficiently you can use a smaller cutter to remove a little of the cake from the centre.
4. Another way is to use rice krispie treats to make the tyre rounds. Make rice krispy treat sheet to the depth of the tyres and cut out with cutters. Indent the round with the rolling pin as before. Cover the rice krispy treat with either a coating of marzipan or double cover with fondant to make a smooth surface. Let the icing dry and continue to complete the tyres.
5. If you can’t make any of the above you could use cookies. Either make deep cookies or stick together bought cookies with ganache. Crumb coat the cookie rounds with ganache and let them set. Make a fondant rope and make a circle with it in the centre of the ganached cookie. This will represent the ‘well,’ the indent which Paul made with the rolling pin in the fondant tyres. Cover the cookie with the black fondant pressing it in into the well to to make the indent. Continue with the rest of the tutorial.
(Do you have any gum alternatives to tylose? Alternatives are gum tragacanth, CMC or gum arabic. If you have any of these products they can be used instead of tylose.)
I hope some of the above can help.