Frosting or Icing?
In my mind frosting is made with powdered sugar, may or may not be heated, and is spread over a cake or cupcakes.
Icing is made with granulated sugar, boiled, and then drizzled over a cake.
But my husband says that he has never heard anyone else in real life use the term “frosting.” It is always icing, even when it is that nasty stuff in the little tub from the store.
What do you think? Frosting or icing or it depends?
Rae, you’ve got this one! Frosting is fluffy-creamy and spread, icing doesn’t hold it’s form and is drizzled. Right?
I call it all icing – unless it’s piped on, then I call it frosting.
Gosh I could go either way!
I call it all icing but I can use them interchangeably.
It’s funny how different words mean different things to people – for the longest time I considered “a couple” when referring to items as 2 – 3 and a “few” as 3 – 4. I know that a couple is two, but sometimes I regress… haha.
I did the same thing in terms of “a couple” and “a few.”
I use the term frosting for the thicker stuff, and icing would be more of a liquid form that hardens.
I use frosting for just about everything. It’s only ever icing if it is drizzled.
I use both terms for anything you put on a cake. However, if it’s a liquid to be drizzled, it’s a “glaze” in my book.
I completely forgot about “glaze!”
How funny! Everyone has a different perspective. Maybe it’s a regional thing? I generally call everything icing, but the gross that comes out of a can is frosting. I don’t know why. The thin, drizzly stuff is usually glaze to me. Maybe it’s because we rarely used either growing up. Chocolate ganache topped most of our cakes. If not, then it was cream cheese icing/frosting/whatever you want to call it. But always homemade.
I wonder if it is a regional thing. I grew up in New England while my husband was raised in the Deep South.
And I guess it really does not matter what it is called so long as it is homemade and delicious!
Huh. I’ve never made any distinction between the two.
I agree with you 110%
I use frosting to describe it all. Except icing is more appopriate that way you described it. But it’s still frosting (to both me and hubby!)
I don’t think I ever use “icing”. It’s always frosting! I really do think it might be a regional thing. You would think someone, somewhere has done some sort of a break-down on which parts of the country call it what.