You're Doing It All Wrong - How to Frost a Cake

A hot cake plus cold frosting means cake death: soggy and ugly. Meg Ray, founder and owner of San Francisco's Miette patisserie and confiserie, explains what you're doing wrong when you're frosting a cake.

[Skote]

Wow, this video really helped. Instead of doing the "wrong" way, I just went out and bought a cake! Thanks!

[gailjarvis]

SAY....I am my OWN revolving cake stand. I put the cake on the plate in the center of my round kitchen table and I revolve around it! I am magical!

[thebeautyisLP]

this is literally the only "you're doing it wrong" video i actually agree with. i worked in a bakery for a while and this is exactly how the cake people did it.

[UnknownParticles]

As long as some cake and frosting both make it into my mouth at the same time, I think I'm doing it pretty damn right.

[zmodem]

Yep, I've definitely been doing it all wrong lol. Thanks so much!

[grammregoate]

Some of the wrong examples are a bit extreme. I mean if someone even attempted to ice a cake with that rock hard cold icing i think they need to get their head examined first. anyone with a brain could see straight away that it wouldnt spread at all.

[deettle]

I like the crumb coat method and putting it in the fridge. Thanks, good tips, but I still don't have the right tools...better get them.

[AntMixFilms]

I like this woman.
She doesn't yell at my face like the others screaming, "YOU DOING IT WRONG, [BITCH]".
ty.

[hEyBaNaGiRl]

When she says "Now I'm going to show you the right way to frost a cake" she looks like she can barely contain the joy inside her

[matthijscraft]

This woman actually makes sense, you have to admit.

[Chiliplease]

i wonder why the hell you assume everyone has a "revolving cake stand"

[extraordianarynails]

"OH MY GOD SHE SAID ONE DIRECTIO-" *gets punched in the face*

[geraldalejandro]

Once you put your cold coat of frosting on and you put it in the refrigerator and then you take it out to put the second coat how do you end up warming up the second coat to be a little bit warmer to spread on the cake?

[ACE]

finally someone who holds the offset spat properly.

[catherinem.]

I like the denim apron! Thanks for this, love the Miette cakes!

[MegaMan-bsoy]

awesome! i am a 30 year old man (haha ikr) who has all of a sudden fallen in love with baking cakes for people. I would make amazing cakes but destroy them when it came to the frosting part. I made the rookie mistake of putting my frosting in the fridge UGH!

[MRSketch]

@Vid
While I never made the mistakes she mentioned, ... some of those makes me think that, anyone who did make those mistakes obviously grew up around parents who did not cook.

Anyways color me impressed, I just learned something none the less.

[Homochild]

When she said crumb coat, did anyone else expect someone to say "what's a crumb coat"

[METmusic]

I love how in all of these ' you're doing it all wrong' videos people get really defensive and angry at the people in the videos

[floydmatt]

Can someone PLEASE tell me what this Dorito's consomme means?