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Cake Construction 101 - From Layers to Crumb Coat and Everything in Between

Are you wondering how to layer and stack a cake like a professional?

Maybe you want to know how to fix a cake that is broken?

Or maybe you are tired of having messy looking cakes that aren’t structurally sound.

Let’s get to the bottom of cake construction and troubleshoot common cake stacking issues.

Watch Melissa of Build a Better Bakery take you from cake layers to a stacked and crumb coated cake, while including troubleshooting for broken cake and how to deconstruct a cake safely!

Discover how to:

  • level

  • torte

  • dam

  • fill

  • stack

  • deconstruct

  • crumb coat a round cake


We will go over:


  1. How to level a cake with simple tools.

  2. How to torte and fill a cake, to avoid filling ooze.

  3. How to crumb coat a cake to create cakes with clean icing.

  4. How to deal with uneven cakes with damage.

  5. What to do when filling overflows.

  6. How to store a cake after crumb coat.

  7. A routine to help you be more efficient when constructing your cakes .



Normally the caliber of class you would pay for, this is perfect for a person who wants to up-level their cake game from hobby to professional!


Watch Melissa of Build a Better Bakery take you from cake layers to a stacked and crumb coated cake, while including troubleshooting for broken cake and how ...



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