Frosting: A sweet glaze often made with sugar, butter, water and egg whites or milk, often flavored and cooked (although it can be uncooked). It's used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies and can range from thick to thin.
Icing: see Frosting. Yep that's right, the words are interchangeable. Often frosting is actually a type of icing, but it depends on where you're from.
Frosting and icing seem to be words that vary by region. So how about you, what do you call it?
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I say frosting.
1I guess, when I think about the two, I think of icing more as a thinner glaze, ie powdered sugar mixed with lemon juice to drizzle over lemon bread. And I think of icing more as a butter based, thicker, fluffy birthday cake topping.
For me, frosting is the fluffy stuff on a birthday cake, and icing is the sugary stuff on a cinnamon roll.
2In English, I say icing...lol
3oops! I meant to say Frosting" is the birthday cake stuff! haha
4Mme- what is the word in French?
5Too bad we can't edit previous posts!
6It's either le glacage or le glacé de sucre!
7For the gateau? haha- did I remember the right word? What it the word for fat? For some reason I think they were similar sounding words.
8I'm Canadian and I always call it icing, but my American husband always calls it frosting!
9I always say frosting- icing makes me think of a thinner glaze, like on cinnamon rolls.
10I say both. And I didn't know that until I saw this question.
11In my neck of the woods frosting has butter in it. Icing doesn't.
12icing is the harder stuff on gingerbread men.
13frosting is the yummy stuff you eat straight out of the container with a spoon
Frosting is the stuff on a cake. Icing is a harder glaze, like royal icing.
14Yep, gateau is right...fat has many words. On the nutritional information on a box (like pasta) it's listed as Lipides, otherwise it is gras when it is masculine and grasse when it is feminine.
I'm beginning to see why French is confusing LOL!
Mind you, English has two words for the topping on a cake
Canadians tend to say icing and Americans say frosting, from what I can summise.
15i usually say frosting and icing, depends i think
16Ever hear of "icing on the cake?"
17Icing is something they penalize you for in hockey.
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