What's the best way to slice off the dome so the cake is flat enough to frost/stack,
You don't slice off the dome, you use it for more frosting square footage. And you use frosting to fill in the gap between the layers. Like mortar.
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Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2014 2:57:30 pm PST #10761 of 30000
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EpicTangent - Nov 18, 2014 3:05:42 pm PST #10762 of 30000
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I should amend that: what's the best way to slice off the dome that doesn't require special tools, because I have none and am not going out to buy a cake dome-slicing tool. So it has to be using normal kitchen tools (knife, etc.).
I hear good things about dental floss. I haven't actually tried it, I've just done it like Connie said above - NOTE: for a checkerboard cake, the domes really do screw up your presentation. Next time I try for the checkerboard I will plan on using the dental floss.
Laura - Nov 18, 2014 3:08:52 pm PST #10763 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I found the weight of the upper layer squished away the dome.
It is even cold here! 58F right now and it is forecast for 54F overnight!! I went to work this morning in shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt. Ooops. Twas chilly when I left.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2014 3:11:36 pm PST #10764 of 30000
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Jesse - Nov 18, 2014 3:15:30 pm PST #10765 of 30000
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-t - Nov 18, 2014 3:16:28 pm PST #10766 of 30000
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I haven't used dental floss on cakes. Lots of other things, but not cakes. Seems like that would be tricky.
Bread knife does the trick. The nice thing about trimming off bits of cake to make it all level and even is you get to eat the trimmings before anyone else gets cake.
Beverly - Nov 18, 2014 3:21:19 pm PST #10767 of 30000
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Steph, my cakestand has a slight depression in the center--a lot of presentation plates do. Check and see if yours does. Then you put the bottom layer top side down, dome in the depression, with the flat bottom up. Frost, and place the upper layer flat bottom-side down, and frost the dome on top. I've never trimmed a layer to flatten it.
Sue - Nov 18, 2014 3:23:11 pm PST #10768 of 30000
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I use a bread knife to even cakes out too.
Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2014 3:24:31 pm PST #10769 of 30000
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It is even cold here! 58F right now and it is forecast for 54F overnight!!
We probably won't see those temperatures for a high until late March. I'm getting giddy over the 45 we're supposed to see this weekend.
Hil R. - Nov 18, 2014 3:27:16 pm PST #10770 of 30000
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It's 16 degrees here. I'm at trivia now, and kind of dreading going home, because it'll probably be about 50 inside there.