Vanilla butter cake with swiss meringue cream, raspberry compote and crème patisserie as filling
Cake too heavy? Filling too slippery? Frosting too warm?
by swedishgirl47
24 Comments
Veeeeezy
It can be a little bit of everything, honestly!
Did it collapse after being transported?
BetterNowThks
I’m sorry for your loss.0
Pepperjack_2000
I seems to me that this happened because you didn’t have any support in your cake. Next time, add about four plastic dowels around the cake. For extra precaution (especially when transporting), I recommend also adding a central wooden dowel The four plastic dowels are so that the cake layers don’t slide unevenly and the central wooden dowel is so that the cake as a whole doesn’t start leaning (speaking from experience here, lol)
Also, it helps when transporting to keep your car as cold as possible to mimic the fridge. This will keep your buttercream somewhat harder than just room temperature. So crank that AC all the way up!
Hope this helps!
dreadedmama
It can be fixed! We can rebuild her
Truman_Show_Place
It’s a UniCat! They do what they want. Carry extra icing and spin a cat tail on the uneven side.
Healthierpoet
Could you lightly freeze the cake before transport ? Or would that cause issues.
20milliondollarapi
“Fatality!”
BuckEyw
It was beautiful..but it still tasted good , right ?
GingerinWV
That’s heartbreaking! It was beautiful, and it sounded delicious.
CandyHeartFarts
I would say the main issue would likely be that the top was too heavy. It looks like you have three cake layers and the top two help together okay, is that correct?
Thinking maybe the bottom was the smallest 1/3 of cake and just couldn’t take it.
I’m so sorry!
I’d recommend using dowels for anything over two layers, especially if you have to transport it. In theory three should be okay but it’s a risk
miss_chapstick
Just say the unicorn is Canadian, and Blame Canada.
imnoneofthese
Dowels would be a great stabilizer
PBJ-9999
Oh nooo
uluviel
She’s just sleepy.
k80bakes
Hi OP I’m wondering if it was more to do with how the cake was transported? I read your comments about how it was assembled and unless your fillings were super runny I don’t think how you built the cake would’ve necessarily caused this to happen. The only time I’ve had a cake collapse on me was when it wasn’t receiving enough air conditioning and was on my back seat instead of the floor. And that was with supports inside! Car seats often have a slight angle to them and can cause a cake to start leaning after bumping around during the drive. I request my clients to transport cakes on the floor with the AC blasting, in hopes to keep that from happening. So sorry this happened! It’s the worst feeling ☹️
jcnlb
Poor unicorn was just tired from the long trip. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m so sorry it really is beautiful though. Hope you could pull off a cute story for the kiddo.
polyetc
You’ve gotten a lot of good feedback already but I also wanted to point you in the direction of Sugarologie’s buttercream experiment, where she tested 8 different buttercreams, including how well they hold up weight. Swiss meringue buttercream didn’t perform as well as she thought it would. See https://youtu.be/oQnjFHLgNnc?si=D3slX9I4O8tjUav_ at around 12:40 Some of the other buttercreams were more stable under weight.
tobeperfectlycandid
Oh no! It’s always upsetting to see this after all the hard work!
My tips would be to:
Use dowels, especially when using a compote filling.
Compote fillings generally are a wet filling and buttercream and water do not like each other so will not ‘glue’ in the traditional sense. Imagine that + client driving + no dowels + warm weather = sliding layers.
Anyway! We all learn from our mistakes so definitely dowel up next time and keep creating 😇
lonelybakerboy15
Beautiful! But I’m sorry for your loss.
What is the horn made out of?
WeArrAllMadHere
I gasped out loud at the second pic, my heart…
Sorry that happened.
Bobbly_1010257
How thick is that buttercream??????? It’s like an inch thick? You need dowels!!!!!!!!! 😫
Fickle_Freckle
She’s just sleeping
Pojratbi
In the first photo we can see the right side of the cake already sticking out. In the second photo we see a significant amount of liquid soaking the cardboard. All this tells us about the instability of the filling.
Flow_Sprout
It reminds me of when a character and anime just runs by the villain and returns the sword to the scabbard. Then the villain takes a step and realizes they’ve been cut in half
24 Comments
It can be a little bit of everything, honestly!
Did it collapse after being transported?
I’m sorry for your loss.0
I seems to me that this happened because you didn’t have any support in your cake. Next time, add about four plastic dowels around the cake. For extra precaution (especially when transporting), I recommend also adding a central wooden dowel The four plastic dowels are so that the cake layers don’t slide unevenly and the central wooden dowel is so that the cake as a whole doesn’t start leaning (speaking from experience here, lol)
Also, it helps when transporting to keep your car as cold as possible to mimic the fridge. This will keep your buttercream somewhat harder than just room temperature. So crank that AC all the way up!
Hope this helps!
It can be fixed! We can rebuild her
It’s a UniCat! They do what they want. Carry extra icing and spin a cat tail on the uneven side.
Could you lightly freeze the cake before transport ? Or would that cause issues.
“Fatality!”
It was beautiful..but it still tasted good , right ?
That’s heartbreaking! It was beautiful, and it sounded delicious.
I would say the main issue would likely be that the top was too heavy.
It looks like you have three cake layers and the top two help together okay, is that correct?
Thinking maybe the bottom was the smallest 1/3 of cake and just couldn’t take it.
I’m so sorry!
I’d recommend using dowels for anything over two layers, especially if you have to transport it.
In theory three should be okay but it’s a risk
Just say the unicorn is Canadian, and Blame Canada.
Dowels would be a great stabilizer
Oh nooo
She’s just sleepy.
Hi OP I’m wondering if it was more to do with how the cake was transported? I read your comments about how it was assembled and unless your fillings were super runny I don’t think how you built the cake would’ve necessarily caused this to happen. The only time I’ve had a cake collapse on me was when it wasn’t receiving enough air conditioning and was on my back seat instead of the floor. And that was with supports inside! Car seats often have a slight angle to them and can cause a cake to start leaning after bumping around during the drive. I request my clients to transport cakes on the floor with the AC blasting, in hopes to keep that from happening. So sorry this happened! It’s the worst feeling ☹️
Poor unicorn was just tired from the long trip. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m so sorry it really is beautiful though. Hope you could pull off a cute story for the kiddo.
You’ve gotten a lot of good feedback already but I also wanted to point you in the direction of Sugarologie’s buttercream experiment, where she tested 8 different buttercreams, including how well they hold up weight. Swiss meringue buttercream didn’t perform as well as she thought it would. See https://youtu.be/oQnjFHLgNnc?si=D3slX9I4O8tjUav_ at around 12:40 Some of the other buttercreams were more stable under weight.
Oh no! It’s always upsetting to see this after all the hard work!
My tips would be to:
Use dowels, especially when using a compote filling.
Compote fillings generally are a wet filling and buttercream and water do not like each other so will not ‘glue’ in the traditional sense. Imagine that + client driving + no dowels + warm weather = sliding layers.
Anyway! We all learn from our mistakes so definitely dowel up next time and keep creating 😇
Beautiful! But I’m sorry for your loss.
What is the horn made out of?
I gasped out loud at the second pic, my heart…
Sorry that happened.
How thick is that buttercream??????? It’s like an inch thick? You need dowels!!!!!!!!! 😫
She’s just sleeping
In the first photo we can see the right side of the cake already sticking out. In the second photo we see a significant amount of liquid soaking the cardboard. All this tells us about the instability of the filling.
It reminds me of when a character and anime just runs by the villain and returns the sword to the scabbard. Then the villain takes a step and realizes they’ve been cut in half