I made a round cake that had a frozen buttercream transfer for the whole top of the cake. It turned out great except that I think there was way too much icing on the top of the cake. I had iced the cake like usual then applied the FBCT. In order to have less icing on top, can i just skip icing the top of the cake first? Or can I use something else to adhere the FBCT to the cake... like piping gel or something?

Thanks!

Maybe you can just do a thinner coat of icing on top.

Yeah I know what you mean, it gets real thick once the FBCt is put on, Maybe just crumb coat the top so the icing from the transfer adheres to it.

I put the thinnest of layers of icing on top of the cake and do it RIGHT before I adhere the FBCT so that it's not crusted and will GRAB the transfer.. Also, with practice, you can make your FCBT less thick. Mine are about an 1/8 thick and never more than 1/4 inch and that's pretty standard amount of frosting on top.

I tried a very thin layer like berryblondeboys and merissa suggested on my last cake and it turned out so much better. Thanks for the suggestions!

Oh, glad it worked, that Dilbert cake is SOOOO cute! Great for work!

Melissa