Just Wanted To Say For Doll Cake Info (Pic)
Decorating By my3preciousbabies Updated 21 May 2006 , 11:41pm by mamacc
So I made my first doll cake, and well it wasn't great but I guess not bad for like the third cake I have ever tried to make besides just baking a cake and slapping on some icing. I messed up on the words but My dd LOVED the cake so I guess that is all that matters! I know I do want to keep trying though I did have fun! I have to say it was ALOT harder then I thought it would be... Oh and question for future purposes, how do I ice a cake with out the crumbs getting ON the icing????
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My3:
Hey! You did a great job!
In order to keep the icing as crumb-free as possible, you first ice the cake with a very light coat of icing, and let that dry. (This is called a "crumb coat.") This frosting step is not to "look pretty," but to absorb the crumbs, even up the edges a little, and seal the cake from the air.
You MUST "seal" around the edges of the cake very well with that light, thin coat of icing, however, in order to prevent places in your cake from drying out that have been exposed to air!
I usually take a cake board exactly the same size as my cake, place the cake on that, then ice it & seal it with the crumb coat. I then place the whole cake after it's dried well, onto a cake board that's been covered in "fancy foil," or (whatever you like on your cake board.) I do the decorating on the cake with my turntable that way.
Hope this helps!
Best of luck to you, you're on your way!
--Knox--
Oh thanks! I was getting so frusterated, I thought maybe I could let the icing dry and then do another coat like you said but I my icing never got hard enough.... Then again I am impatient too lol.... Thanks for the suggestion 
Hi My,
I had the same question a couple weeks ago, all though I didn't have the guts to post the question.
I found out that, one of the things I could do is let the cake cool off then brush as much of the crumbs off as possible and do whats called a crumb coat. By putting a very thin coat of icing on the cake.
Let it just set for about 30 min or less the icing will get hard and then go ahead and finish icing it . I'm pretty sure there are other ways, but this is the one that has worked for me so far. Hope this helps.
By the way for this to be your first doll cake, I think that you've done a great job. Practice makes perfect you have to crawl before walk.
Great looking cake, and your daughter looks thrilled!
I never really understood what the crumb coating meant. Thank's for the explination. that might be easier than what I've been doing. I've been applying the frosting with the bag and then smoothing it so I never actually apply it with the spatula. It is time consuming, but it's worked for me for the last 4 years.
The cake icer tip (#789) works great! I kept reading about it when I first started decorating and I've been using it ever since. I never get any crumbs in my icing this way. Plus it gets an even layer on the whole cake which helps out when trying to smooth it later. You have to use it with a 16" bag.
Courtney
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