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Cotton Swabs Are The Skinny Heroes That Prevent Smushed Icing On Leftover Cake By Ashley M. Jacobs Nov. 11, 2025 8:20 pm EST

I love making cakes and cupcakes from scratch. It's really fun. What I do dread (besides the cleanup) is transporting and storing them. I don't want the treats I painstakingly decorated to slide, and I don't want the frosting to get messed up. When you're bringing cookies somewhere, it's easy to just throw plastic wrap around them on a plate. But with cake? You need something to prop up the plastic so it doesn't smear the frosting. Enter cotton swabs. Yes, you can use chopsticks or skewers, but those poke holes in the plastic, making it a fallible system.

Q-tips will make sure your decorated cakes don't get smushed and

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