I have been doing a lot of Chocolate cakes and when I put the cumb coat and then goto ice the cake the cumb coat comes off and then chocolate cumbs get on my icing. It looks bad and I have my first wedding cake this weekend and the grooms cake is chocolate. Any ideas to help me with this problem?

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I just did my first wedding cake, and parts of it's layers were chocolate, too. I put on my crumb coat and chilled the cake, then went back and iced it while it was still cold. Also, I used a small amount of Wilton's icing whitener to make the ivory icing more opaque. Worked like a charm!

If your crumb coat is peeling off of your cake it's too thick. You need to thin your icing and then put it on. It should not be a thick coating at all. You shoujld see your cake through it.. all of it.

After I do the crumb coat, I put the cake in the refrigerator for a while, then I go back and ice it. Are you using a thin layer for the crumb coat? If it's to thick, then the icing layer will pick the crumbs back up. Hope this is helpful. Good Luck.