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| 7/18/2011
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K9Cakery Staff
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| There are a few things that can make Fido's Frosting crack, and none of them are the frosting that is causing the cracking when you get down to it. In some cases, people say that the frosting worked great and then after a day or two it cracked. That tells me that they experienced a not uncommon problem. People who bake their own treats, especially if they are thick treats, remove them from the oven, let them cool and then apply the icing. It looks great and then a few days later it cracks. That is often because while the treat appeared to be dry when you took it out of the oven, it was still moist in the center. If you don't dehydrate a treat thoroughly, it usually takes a few days to truly dry. So if you apply frosting, it dries to a hard shell overnight. It is now set. But, over the next day, the treat is still drying and thus, shrinking. So when the treat shrinks, but the frosting is now a hard shell, simple physics shows that the frosting will get a stress crack. It sounds like you are experiencing that. The remedy is to make sure your treats are so dry that they snap when you break them before applying the frosting. If you want to test and prove that the icing does not crack, just buy a milk bone from the grocery and apply it to that. I am confident you will find no cracking.
Another way the icing can crack is similar. Some people make gluten free treats. Gluten is like a glue that holds things together in the baking process. If you eliminate gluten and sugar, you eliminate all of the ingredients that form intricate webs within the baked good that hold it together. This is why you see gluten free cookies break so easily into crumbs. So, if you apply frosting to a gluten free treat and the frosting hardens, then the treat itself cracks (you can see the cracks if you look at the underside of the treat), the frosting will crack along the same line. This is because the treat has cracked and simply took the frosting with it.
One final thing that can make the frosting crack. If you try to put a small intricate design on a treat surface, there is stypically not enough frosting to hold onto the cookie and some may fall off. To remedy this, coat the treat with a base coat of frosting that will have a lot to stick to. Then draw your intricate lines on that base coat and it will bond to the base coat of frosting. Then you have a strong, intricate design that will last.
I know that sounds like a lot but those are the reasons the frosting cracks. As you can see, it is not the frosting that cracks, rather, its the treat the frosting is on that cracks. Again, you can always test this with the milk bone test.
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