Every good cake deserves a good frost-job. Yet, even with our most beloved, crumb-perfected cake recipes, the TLC sometimes stops once the cake is out of the oven and we start haphazardly slapping on frosting with reckless abandon.
Whether it’s a fear of piping bags or simply the lack of time and equipment holding you back, help has arrived. Cake Artist Laura Grizzel from The Frosted Affair, a première wedding and events bakery in Nashville, TN, is here to guide you from homespun horrors to decorating greatness.
Learn The Frosted Affair’s essential crumb coat technique then take on one of The Frosted Affair’s easy-to-replicate frosting DIYs below. Each step-by-step guide is chock full of visuals, too, so you won’t miss a thing.
6 Step-by-Step Cake Design Tutorials from The Frosted Affair

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