What Is Crumb Coating

Decorating By debilou68 Updated 23 May 2006 , 7:07pm by pinkopossum

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debilou68 Posted 23 May 2006 , 1:37pm
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Hi, everyone,, this may be a silly question,, but here goes. I here a lot of talk about "crumb coating" ,, i'm fairly new to this,, can someone explain exactly what that is. thanks

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Jenn123 Posted 23 May 2006 , 1:41pm
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It just means putting a really thin coat of icing to help stick down all the crumbs. After you crumb coat you can go back and put a regular thickness of icing on. It's good if you have a crumbly cake or dark cake showing when you ice.

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Gretta Posted 23 May 2006 , 1:45pm
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Crumb coating is the thin layer of frosting you can quickly apply to "seal in" the crumbs from your cake so the crumbs won't come through your beautifully sculptured cake. Depending on the frosting you use, spread a thin layer, let it crust over (either by air or in the frig.) and you are ready to frost with no crumb worry!

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pinkopossum Posted 23 May 2006 , 7:07pm
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Jenn and karen have got it covered. thumbs_up.gif crumb coating works really well if you want to keep little cake particles out of your icing.

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