frosting
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“You can put your effort into glorifying your cake with frosting, dreaming up an exciting trim that puts your own label on it.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
It was gooey, soft and slathered in a classic tangy cream cheese frosting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
The cake had a butterscotch frosting, which was brown and thus “weird.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Everything else is just frosting on the cake.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
Most cream cheese frostings call for just a handful of ingredients — typically cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and salt.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025
“For its base, cooks followed one of several butter cake formulas, each adapted well to all sorts of flavorings, toppings, and frostings, limited only by the baker’s imagination,” Tipton-Martin states in “Jubilee.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
She offers 50 cakes — sheet cakes, stacked cakes, rolled cakes, even ice cream cakes — and many fillings, soaks and frostings to make them your own.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
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 six tiers of fabric are like different frostings of tulle and lace and silk.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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