White Buttercream On Chocolate Cake.
Decorating By sweetnessx3 Updated 13 Aug 2010 , 3:14pm by carmijok
I did a chocolate cake with bc icing and I had to keep putting bc on it because I could see the chocolate through the icing grrrr..... when I delivered it and stood back to look at it , I could still see through the icing ! How do you prevent this ?
Thank you, Lisa
I find doing a crumb coat and then a generous finish coat always does the trick. Maybe you just needed a thicker coat
Maybe so 
I had put icing all the way to the end of my cake circle though . I dont know ,maybe my icing was too thin 
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Thank you I'll try a thicker crumb coat next time forsure
It was a 6,8 and 10 and your right top 2 layers where awful! Wonder what the difference is ?
To me, it's sacrilegious to put white/vanilla frosting on chocolate cake. THAT must be the reason for the chocolate showing through.
I layer my frosting on in thinner layers. First I crumb coat, chill...then 1st layer of BC, chill, and 2nd layer, chill and keep doing it until you see no cake. I cover chocolate all the time. The bakery I worked for iced cakes this way and it made it very smooth and well covered. It's also good for when you have to add a color like red or black or dark blue and don't want everyone's teeth to turn colors. I just layer the colored BC in the last layer or two. The majority of frosting then is plain buttercream.
chocolate cake with white bc icing is one of my favorites!
question on this method though, when you do the crumb coat & refridgerate, then take it out & ice the final coat, I have found that the condensation lasts forever and I cannot get the bc to crust to use the viva towel method. Am I doing something wrong?
chocolate cake with white bc icing is one of my favorites!
question on this method though, when you do the crumb coat & refridgerate, then take it out & ice the final coat, I have found that the condensation lasts forever and I cannot get the bc to crust to use the viva towel method. Am I doing something wrong?
Yes. Stop refrigerating your cakes. 
Ok, seriously, 
unless you have a perishable filling, there is no need to refrigerate a cake between icings. Or in my ever-so-never-humble-opinion, anytime at all. I never refrigerate my cakes.
chocolate cake with white bc icing is one of my favorites!
question on this method though, when you do the crumb coat & refridgerate, then take it out & ice the final coat, I have found that the condensation lasts forever and I cannot get the bc to crust to use the viva towel method. Am I doing something wrong?
Yes. Stop refrigerating your cakes.
Ok, seriously,
unless you have a perishable filling, there is no need to refrigerate a cake between icings. Or in my ever-so-never-humble-opinion, anytime at all. I never refrigerate my cakes.
I DON'T typically refrigerate my cakes but was just looking for other methods to get that perfectly smooth, no-cake-showing-through icing job
chocolate cake with white bc icing is one of my favorites!
question on this method though, when you do the crumb coat & refridgerate, then take it out & ice the final coat, I have found that the condensation lasts forever and I cannot get the bc to crust to use the viva towel method. Am I doing something wrong?
When do you have condensation? If you chill it and ice while chilled there should be none. I don't put just one layer on after crumb coating....generally it takes several...with chliling between layers. I don't have a problem with condensation and my buttercream crusts just great. I don't use the Viva towel method. I use the hot knife method to smooth--and a little 'squeegee' that I run around the sides.
I also use a buttercream recipe that uses only real butter. No Crisco. Don't know if that makes a difference or not. After my final coat and smoothing I let it chill again before adding the decor. Then I keep the cake cold until delivery. I've delivered cakes that have stayed out for hours and there has been no problem with condensation or melting or fondant decor problems. Like I said, I learned this technique at a bakery and they never had any problems either. HTH!
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