The QUICKEST Way to Ice a Cake Like a Pro

Your time is one of the biggest costs of running a cake business. In this video I break down the quickest way to ice a cake to save you time.

Saving time in your cake business can help the cost of your products be more affordable for your customers AND bring you more money at the same time!

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[Diana-gnrp]

22 years as Head Cake Decorator for Kroger. Great tutorial. And yes, we NEVER crumb coated and always used the speedy icer . (The large tip you showed.). I’ve covered crumbs with a leaf, sprinkles, edible glitter or just take a wooden skewer ( we used for roses) to pluck them off. We had 15 minutes to decorate a cake.
Your finished cake was PERFECT.

[opmad]

I'm not a baker, but I was a chef and I DO know in any walk of life.. the most valuable asset any of us have is our time. Even when we are paying other people to work for us, labor tends to be the most expensive cost- so I thank you for helping many people out with getting them into the right mindset!!

[faithfulgrl]

Thanks for saying you're still learning. That mindset takes you places you've never been before. Never stop being open. This goes for everything in life.
I think you're wonderful!

[FunnyVideos-jtm]

If you freeze the cakes beforehand you don't need to crumb coat or worry about crumbs breaking off. That will reduce the time.

[cindyw.johnson]

I’m a great-grandmother that just wants to make prettier cakes for my family…thanks for giving us inspiring, do-able hints! Blessings to you and your business!

[awestphal]

I work at a popular grocery store bakery. We use a 789 and work a room temp buttercream onto a frozen cake. No crumb coat. We pipe everything, including the filling.

[Lakelandcowboy]

Wilton makes a spray called SEAL. It's a crumb coat in a spray can. Seals up the cake perfectly. Speeds up the process.

[radmilla]

Thanks! This was so helpful! I’ve been baking for many years but never bothered too much about the decorating because I just baked for family and friends and it didn’t matter. But now a friend, who loves my cakes, has asked me to bake her wedding cake, so I need to make it special! Thank you for your help! You are beautiful and have a sweet voice and I love you from the wilderness of the internet!

Connie

[monstera]

This is the best decorating tutorial I've seen! Easy to understand, the cake you made looks ABSOLUTELY amazing, and it's in realtime too?! Jackpot!

[mrsmegatron]

This was SUPER helpful. Not everyone is trying to start a bakery business or has 20+ years of experience. If I'm putting together a party I have a lot of other things that need attention. 10min is great. I've seen store cakes decorated in less than 5min and it looks like it...
Furthermore, frosting thickness is a personal preference. If the frosting is bomb, "too much" is never a problem.
Keep going and shine on! New sub

[asmiabhilash]

So I have always sucked at decorating cakes and no matter what I did it’s always a complete fail. Every time I tried again I would watch more videos and learn more hacks but it was terrible. I had seen this video before and I thought that this was more for like extremely good at frosting cakes people, but this time I decided to watch the video and give her techniques a try and OMG! Sure it wasn’t as pretty as hers but I got something resembling a nicely decorated cake! I will totally be trying again using this same technique. 🧡

[jdwigg]

Thank you! I love your help and your “realness”.
Here is a little tip I like to use on my cakes as I’m removing the plastic wrap. I use a silicone pastry brush and as I’m holding each cake layer over the sink I gently brush the sides, top and bottom of my layers. This helps knock off any loose crumbs that may try to ruin that perfectly frosted cake.

[darlenestarling]

Worked at Winn Dixie Bakery and also Walmart Bakery.. we never crumb coated cakes. We did however use the wilton speedy icer. You gave great tips and done an amazing job. Keep up with great tutorials

[katielizfmedic]

Girl, I’m so glad I came across your channel because you are REAL about how it is when you want to live a full life while having a business and not taking 4 hours to do 1 cake❤

[rosemariekury]

Hi! I love your video because you seem so down to earth. I’m 80 and just learning some of your tricks for frosting a cake. No wonder mine have looked so pathetic as I’ve never used the tubing or the cake stand either. Your recipe for the buttercream sounds delicious. I’m going to begin experimenting with these hints. I know my husband will gladly sample my efforts.

[melissataylor]

What a great presentation! You are an excellent teacher and a phenomenon at cake decorating. 🎉

[LudiCrust.]

I worked in a bakery for 11 years. What we did for imperfections was just hide them with decorations instead of trying to fix anything. It’s surprisingly effective & cuts down on decorating times substantially. We had a set dirty icer who only dirty iced to make the process even faster. If anyone was just beginning to pipe decorations & had mistakes we had an experienced decorator hide those. That system worked for everything except wedding cakes which was a whole other ballgame. If anyone just couldn’t get icing or decorating down then they had them make cookies or pastries. Then the hopeless ones were on donut duty or made the ice cream. I miss working in a bakery. Unfortunately I developed a gluten allergy & constantly breathing it in started making me really sick. I figured it out because after they fired the donut maker I did the donuts for a couple weeks & id get really sick once I started cooking them & glazing them. Then I started noticing its effects when I’d bake cakes. I lasted another couple years before baking cakes started making me as sick as the donuts did.

[mistiesiegel]

you are the first person to explain and show how to hold the scraper to the cake. thank you

[chasannebarnes]

1. Start with chilled almost frozen cake
2. Fill and stack
3. Crumb coat
4. Pop in the freezer for 5 minutes
6. Add second coat to now completely set crumb coat.
7. Smooth
8. Set in feezer for 5 minutes
9. Add another coat and smooth.
Perfection

[josephinevasquez]

Yes, when I worked at different bakeries, we never crumb coat because we had to keep production going. We would ice them like this decorate and put them out. And yes the 898 saves time.