[2Jedismom]

Well, I think it's just a great tip! I made a red velvet cake (in honor of the NW storm victims...don't ask me why, it was as good a reason as any) and the crumbs in the frosting make it look like the scene of a murder!
...I could tell in the wedding pictures. Her smile was fake. Her eyes empty.

[SuziQ]

When I took a cake decorating course, one of the things they taught us to do was to let the layers cool, then put on a 'crumb coat' which was a thinner version of the regular icing. You allowed this to dry before you put the final decorator coat of icing on the cake, so that all those crumbs would be locked in the crumb coat, and you would have little flecks of cake in the nice smooth icing.