Recently I have been having trouble icing cake and I am not sure why. I bake the cake, let it cool and sit for a day and somtimes I put it in the fridge. They when I go to do the crumb coat the cake starts to come up on the spatula. When Icing a cake with buttercream icing do you use a thin consistency icing becaue maybe that is what I am doing wrong. Anyways I continue to ice the cake and I am finding it very difficult to pick up the spatula as the icing come up along with the cake and then it gets mixed up in the icing. Please give suggestions if you can. Thanks Jen
Sounds like you need to thin your icing a bit. For a crumb coat it should be pretty thin. After the crumb coat let it sit a bit then ice with med icing. Be sure you put enough icing on the cake so you can spread it nicely. Also don't go back and forth. Try just icing in one direction. Don't let the spatula touch the cake. Make sure it just moves with the icing only.
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