Icing a tray bake

wishicouldmakeitbetter

Hi, hope someone can help. I am making a rocky road cake and need to put fondant icing on it. On my chocolate cake I use butter icing before the fondant. What should I use on my tray bake cake to make the icing"stick", please? TIA.

BrassicWoman

I use watered down jam

jackyann

so do I - apricot jam because that's what I was taught - I presume because the colour is less likely to seep through than any of the red jams.

Floss

You can use buttercream, but your fondant might be lumpy from the rock road base.

I generally melt some chocolate (white looks good) pop into a small icing bag and drizzle over in a zig-zag pattern.

wishicouldmakeitbetter

Thank you very much everyone.
Floss, would love to do drizzly chocolate but am doing it as 3rd layer of a cake. Covered in fondant and with stars and planets painted on!
My sister ordered a cake for my dad's birthday last year that was tray bake- ish. Wish I had noticed how it was done.🤔

nuatha

wishicouldmakeitbetter wrote: »

Thank you very much everyone.
Floss, would love to do drizzly chocolate but am doing it as 3rd layer of a cake. Covered in fondant and with stars and planets painted on!
My sister ordered a cake for my dad's birthday last year that was tray bake- ish. Wish I had noticed how it was done.🤔

Turn your rocky road upside down, this will give you a smoother top, and the unevenness of the original top can be lost in the sandwich layer filling (possibly buttercream?)
I'd use an apricot glaze to act as the "glue" for the fondant.

wishicouldmakeitbetter

Good idea, thanks. 🙃