i am doing a grad cake covered in fondant...i really hate the wilton BC, just toooo sweet! my question is, what else can i coat the cake with, other than BC to give it a crumb coat and a "glue" for the fondant? thanks!!

I've read that in Britain they use apricot glaze. Just get some apricot jam, heat it up, strain it, and your good to go---if you get a jelly, you might not even have to strain it. A lot of cake stores sell it, too.

If you don't want a heavy layer of icing--just a crumbcoat, you can always take just a little bit of buttercream and thin it down with water until it's soupy looking. Brush that all over your cake and let it dry to catch all of the crumbs. Then, when you're ready to put your fondant on, simply spritz your cake with water and drape the fondant over it.

If you do want icing, the crusting cream cheese icing on this web site is very good and so is Earlene's cream cheese buttercream icing (earlenescakes.com). I just posted the directions for Earlene's icing on one of these posts, but I don't remember which one.

Make your own BC. It is only icing sugar and 1/2 butter and flavouring. It is delicious spread on the cake before covering with fondant. Apricot glaze is good as well but it might drag crumbs and bits of the cake as you brush it on, so it is best to use a flat palette knife to apply it.

You could simply coat the cake in piping gel.

If I run out of buttercream or jam, I simpy use simple syrup or corn syrup.

Jen