Episode
Good Eats: The Icing Man Cometh
Overview
Cake is dandy but let's face it, without frosting it's just sweet bread (not sweetbreads). Host Alton Brown builds a better butter cream then builds a layer cake from ground up...with tools from his local hardware. Recipes: Buttercream Ganache Writing Chocolate
Details
- Series
- Good Eats
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2003-02-19
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
The Icing Man Cometh is Episode 15 in Season 6 of Good Eats. It aired on 2003-02-19. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 14: A Cake on Every Plate
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