Hi! I am Sandy Sheppard, a master cake decorator, and I am here to show you today how to crumb coat a cake. What is crumb coating? It's simply putting on a layer of icing that is thin, and seals in the crumbs. When you have tried to ice a cake in the past, you have probably noticed that it crumbles very easily, and you end up with all this lovely cake crumbs in your icing. To avoid that, it's simple enough to take your icing and first spread on a thin layer of icing, but you'll see those crumbs pulling up here and there; look at those crumbs just moving along. Thin coat of icing, which will help seal in the crumbs. I have spread it around on the top of the cake.
I want to make sure not to get the crumbs down into my icing bowls. So, I am going to scrape it around this nice clean side. Grab some clean icing, and look and I am going to go ahead and grab that icing, because I can use those crumbs here, that doesn't matter. I am going to hold my spatula at a slight angle, as I work around the side of the cake, and just press the cake, press the icing not the cake. Press the icing and push it around as I go.
You might find it easier to work in front of yourself, but I am trying to do this for you at home, I am on the camera, so I am working across for myself. Alright, make sure that you get that cake, the icing covering the cake all the way down to your cake circle, so that it will seal it in nice all the way. Cake's natural enemy is air. So this also helps to protect it from the air that would dry it out, or allow germs to come in and settle and grow, alright. There we go, we have our cake crumb coated, that's what we wanted to achieve.
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