crumb coat

Last year I made a royal icing drip birthday cake with 7 layers of rainbow cake inside for my dad's 60th. Everybody loved it but the only judgement was the crumb coat. My parents aren't fond of buttercream and mum keeps talking about how you can use jam instead of buttercream as a crumb coat...

Have you ever heard the term crumb coat or dirty icing and wondered what earth somebody was going on about. Well, not to worry, I have you covered. And literally, that's all it is. What is a crumb coat? A crumb coat, or 'dirty icing' as it's also known, is the first thin layer of...