CRUMB COAT HOW TO

It looks messy at this point, and that's okay. So for the last part of this crumb cake, we're going to take our cake scraper, and again, you can find these at any cake shop, and I'm going to make a nice, clean coat on the outside. That's normal and that's what it's supposed to do, really. And again, if you see all these crumbs forming, don't worry about it, don't get excited. The crumb coat is a thinner layer of buttercream to prevent the crumbs from getting into the final frosting. And again, this isn't about sweetening the cake or about the flavor, this is about getting a thin layer crumb coat on the cake. The finish coat is different from the crumb coat. So very little, it's a very, very thin layer of frosting. From what I've read on various sights & youtube videos, it's best to refrigerate the crumb coat for 20-30 minutes (or over night) prior to icing & fondant. So I'm going to get a little bit off this, but you're going to be scraping a lot of this frosting off the cake. I am making a 2-tier fondant cake with buttercream and I'm planning on baking the cakes tonight, crumb coating and then icing & fondant tomorrow night. That's how you get that flat look on the cake.Īnd to do a proper crumb coat, you want to one, have a mixing bowl on the side here, because you don't want to get any of the red crumbs into your main frosting. It is kind of like the concept of using paint primer before you start to paint your house. The crumb coat gives you a solid base to start decorating on. But, it also helps you to fill in places where your cake might not be totally even.

My parents arent fond of buttercream and mum keeps talking about how you can use jam instead of buttercream as a crumb coat before the fondant icing. By definition, a crumb coat is a thin layer of icing that traps in all the cake crumbs. Everybody loved it but the only judgement was the crumb coat. I'm going to invert this bottom onto the top of the cake, and what you achieve through that is the top of the cake is now flat, as opposed to rounded. Last year I made a royal icing drip birthday cake with 7 layers of rainbow cake inside for my dads 60th. So we do a crumb coat, and it will allow you to have a nice, clean looking cake.

CRUMB COAT HOW TO

When you frost a cake, especially with red velvet or anything chocolatey, you can really see a lot of those crumbs appearing. Learn how to crumb coat a cake and why its important for building structure, catching crumbs, and setting you up for frosting success.

Crumb coat