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Cake Decorating - How to Crumb Coat

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    Icing Recipe
    Your icing look wonderful. It seems like mine are always too thick and when I thin them they don't dry like yours does. Could you send me your recipe? Thanks- Ashley ashley.streicher@gmail.com

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    Hello thank you so much for posting the videos , it's help me so much , i am just a begener in cake decoration ,i love to ask if is possibel to send me your chocolate cake recipe and the icing recipe , the chocolate cake looks so soft and moist ,i have a wedding cake to make it's going to be a 4 tier cake in this inchs 16-12-8-6 , now my concerne is that i never baked a cake so large a 16inch i a bit worry if is doing to bake all the wall throu and i like to ask if you coud help me with some tip

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    And if possible a yellow cake recipe ,once again thank you for all your help my email lidiabambirra@hotmail.co.uk Thank you Ana Lidia

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    Hello i am just a beginer in cake decoration ,i love to ask if is possibel to send me your cake recipe and the icing recipe , the chocolate cake looks so soft and moist so i like to ask if you could help me with some tip

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    Please would you be able to email me the cake recipe and the icing.kerrymurray19@aapt.net.au thanks kerry

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    Hi I just had a great time enjoying your videos. Really informative and helpful. There are many new things I didn't know. And just like everybody else, could you do me a favor and give me the icing recipe? Your icing looks so easy to work with, or maybe it's because you're the expert ^^ but I'm willing to try. I'm at ekepunya@yahoo.com Thank you tons!

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    Cake recepie and icing recepie
    your choclate cake looks moist and puff can you please mail me the recepie of it and the icing recepie as well..i have seen your videos its so helpful simple and yet professional touch...

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    Can you please email me the recipe for cake icing. I buy mine at Ralphs and they are not as smooth a yours.

Sandy Sheppard
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Sandy Sheppard, an award winning Master Cake Designer, and owner of Confectioner's Art, has over 25 years experience and has been published in Who's Who.”

Cake Decorating - How to Crumb Coat

Sandy Sheppard shows you the basic techniques of cake decorating.

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Sandy Sheppard: Hi! I am Sandy Sheppard, a master cake decorator, and I am here to show you today how to crumb coat a cake, what s crumb coating. Its 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 its simple enough to take your icing and first spread on a thin layer of icing. But you will 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. Now, 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 cleans side, grab some clean icing. I am going to go ahead and grab that icing because I can use those crumbs here, that doesnt 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. Cakes 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 then grow. There we go, we have our cake crumb coated thats what we wanted to achieve.

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