Always wipe your cake board over with either hot water or neat alcohol before placing a cake or icing onto them.
This is required to remove any bacteria that may be present on the board.
Do this even if the cake board has been in a cellophane wrapper; the reason being is that at some point, the board will have been sat in a warehouse and may contain dirt or dust particles.
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