I'm taking a class at my community center and we've made two "cut/carved" cakes. The problem I'm having is that because the cake is cut there is no longer a crust baked on so my crumb coating is not sticking to the cake. I even tried re-freezing after I cut the cake and it didn't help me.
What do you do? Thanks in advance for your response.
Nicole
It sounds like you need to thin your icing a little more for the crump coating. If your icing is too thick it will tear your cake up. Just thin a small amount of icing that you are going to crump coat with and let that crust before you add the next coat of icing.
Cindy
Thank you, great ideas! I agree that my frosting is too thick, for some reason my last two batches have been way to thick. I haven't done anything differently, so I'm going to try to thin it out next time.
I did get a big tip and that also helped, but it seemed to put a lot of frosting on the cake! Thanks so much, I'm sure I'll be back with more questions.
Nicole
I've always had problems frosting cakes that have been cut. Even if I'm able to get the crumb coat on the cake, I'll go to put on the final layer of buttercream and the buttercream will start to peel away from the cake. Even if I'm able to get it back onto the frosting, it'll usually get crumbs into it.
I thought about possibly next time I do a cut up cake is to pipe stars onto the cake, or cover it in MMF. I'd like to hear some other suggestions.
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