an absolute word tart! (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} schemingreader) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} hp_britglish,@ 2007-09-23 22:04:00 |
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On top of a cake: frosting? icing?
Hello!
If you were having cake and there was some sweet gooey stuff on top for decoration, would you say that was "the icing on the cake"? Is icing only the pretty letters, and frosting is the name for the main, um, variety of goop? Or do you say one more than the other?
If we just say "frosting" in a story, will that mark the story as horribly American? Or just tasty?
ETA: Thanks for enlightening me! Icing it is, and it sounds like we need to specify "buttercream" or "ganache" to give the impression of something like the ideal pleasantly melty stuff we mean. It also sounds like there are some regional and class differences about who likes such a thing on cakes!
Hello!
If you were having cake and there was some sweet gooey stuff on top for decoration, would you say that was "the icing on the cake"? Is icing only the pretty letters, and frosting is the name for the main, um, variety of goop? Or do you say one more than the other?
If we just say "frosting" in a story, will that mark the story as horribly American? Or just tasty?
ETA: Thanks for enlightening me! Icing it is, and it sounds like we need to specify "buttercream" or "ganache" to give the impression of something like the ideal pleasantly melty stuff we mean. It also sounds like there are some regional and class differences about who likes such a thing on cakes!
