What are the difference between butter cream frosting and crumb coat icing?
Crumb Coat Icing is more of a technique than a recipe. You take some of your buttercream that you are using to frost your cake and put a very thin layer on your cake. You cover the cake with this thin coat of frosting. Then you let it sit for about 30 minutes before you do your actual frosting of your cake. This Crumb Coat Icing is a wonderful technique if you are frosting a cake because it seals all of the crumbs on your cake and NOT in your frosting. Have you ever frosted a chocolate cake with white frosting and had little bits of chocolate cake all through your white frosting? Crumb coating prevents just that. The video source is very helpful, however it does suggest that you refrigerate the cake and I never do that. I just leave it sit for 30-60 minutes and it firms up on its own. As for the type of cake used for a wedding cake, you can use virtually any cake you like. Wilton suggests a cake mix and this is what I use. I have been making wedding cakes for 10 years now and I have tr
