frosting
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One of the more polite children at our doomed gathering explained that she only liked the pink and blue frosting on supermarket cakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Everything else is just frosting on the cake.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
She punctuates the quip by taking a big bite, leaving a glob of frosting on her face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
It’s when we enjoy slices of birthday cake to our hearts’ content, savoring every single crumb and licking our plates clean of any frosting.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
We keep walking and talking, building our missed-food wish list: Flaming Hot Cheetos, chocolate cake with real buttercream frosting, In-N-Out Animal Style burgers, Badmaash fried chicken, biryani, kheema paratha, samosas, food truck tacos, salmon sushi.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
“If you’re really going into baking all the time with soy sauce, and you’re going to use it for your caramels and your frostings, then, yeah, invest in a good one.”
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
I was in a certified funk the day I was supposed to sample the new line of Dolly Parton-themed cake mixes and frostings from Duncan Hines.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
Baking often necessitates frostings, caramels, and creams, which can be finicky if they’re not kept at a steady temperature.
From Slate ● May 5, 2020
The dough is preternaturally puffy but has almost no give, and the frostings are as subtle as giggles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2014
He had scored a superb 99 on the fill-in-the blank worksheet on cakes and frostings, not to mention a 96 on his poultry worksheet.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
