There is a big difference between frosting and icing. Frosting is thick and holds shapes like rosettes and shells like those you see piped around the edges of a birthday cake. It remains soft to the touch and has a creamy texture, and most people think it tastes better because of the creamy buttery flavor. Icing, on the other hand, is a thinner, more liquid substance, and as it dries it thins out, becomes very smooth across the surface of your cookie, and hardens. This is the icing to use for the most beautiful, professional results. --Mimi Cummins, Christmas-cookies.com
Hey, an extinct lagomorph here is starving... and this is discrimination. Defend uniformitarianism, treat extinct species just as the extant ones. What do you think, pterodactyl?
I think frosting is thicker, with more of a home-made feel than icing.
It is much harder for me envision a fox with frosting on his whiskers than a bear with icing on her nose. Maybe that's why you can't get any cupcake love, sionnach.
Ah! I had a feeling that question would come up! I actually changed my last comment from "frosting" to "icing" because I use both words interchangeably and couldn't decide which one I wanted. Darn English.
I think it's because reesetee probably reasonably fears I'll freak out about getting icing in my fur, or something. Or Is It... *eyes reesetee suspiciously*
goodie, goodie!
Are you kidding, dontcry? Icing/frosting is the best part!
There is a big difference between frosting and icing. Frosting is thick and holds shapes like rosettes and shells like those you see piped around the edges of a birthday cake. It remains soft to the touch and has a creamy texture, and most people think it tastes better because of the creamy buttery flavor. Icing, on the other hand, is a thinner, more liquid substance, and as it dries it thins out, becomes very smooth across the surface of your cookie, and hardens. This is the icing to use for the most beautiful, professional results.
--Mimi Cummins, Christmas-cookies.com
if you just kind of peck at the icing/frosting (i'm smack in the thick of it too) and never eat the cake, would that make you a bad person?
And all the pages before were just the cupcake under the icing, eh, c_b?
That's the frosting on the cupcake for you then, tippy toes?
Fling not, reesetee, you know this bear doesn't like it. Probably can't catch.
*my new favorite page*
Did I not just say we have plenty of cupcakes? Or--okay, muffins too (for extinct lagomorphs and giant prehistoric reptiles).
*handing out more treats*
Gracious. Good thing I'm just an old creole bon vivant who indiscriminately flings cupcakes. ;->
Hey, an extinct lagomorph here is starving... and this is discrimination. Defend uniformitarianism, treat extinct species just as the extant ones.
What do you think, pterodactyl?
Speaking as a giant prehistoric reptile, I have to say that I don't really like cupcakes.
Muffins, though...
Henhouse? Eggs? Do I look like a chicken?
Anyway, we have plenty of cupcakes to go 'round. *spreads the cupcake love liberally*
*does a cupcake dance on tippy-toes, in a tutu*
Here, sionnach. *shares cupcakes* Make sure you don't accidentally drop it in your big fennec ears.
I think frosting is thicker, with more of a home-made feel than icing.
It is much harder for me envision a fox with frosting on his whiskers than a bear with icing on her nose. Maybe that's why you can't get any cupcake love, sionnach.
*carefully hands chained_bear every last blessed cupcake*
Waaahhh. Ursine hegemony. What about unfulfilled vulpine cupcake needs?
Foxes have needs too!!! Shuffles off to the henhouse to puncture all your eggs.
I think it is one of those regional variations in the United States--I'm not sure there is a substantive difference.
*tastes cupcakes from before reesetee edited comment, and after*
*tastes them again*
Nope, no substantive difference.
Ah! I had a feeling that question would come up! I actually changed my last comment from "frosting" to "icing" because I use both words interchangeably and couldn't decide which one I wanted. Darn English.
Oh, I Love Freedom. I do. However, I do not love angry, icing-besmirched mammals of the family Ursidae.
*carefully hands chained_bear every last blessed cupcake*
Speeaking of which, just what is the difference between icing and frosting anyway?
I think it's because reesetee probably reasonably fears I'll freak out about getting icing in my fur, or something. Or Is It... *eyes reesetee suspiciously*
Why do you ration the cupcakes so? Is it because you hate freedom?
*carefully places five cupcakes on c_b's extended paw*
*snarf*
Oh. Well...here. *carefully places cupcake on c_b's extended paw*
Ooh! Me! Me! (just don't throw it please)
Excellent. Anyone for a cupcake?
In homage to the _bear.