frosting
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frostings
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a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
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a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.
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a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.
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a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.
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a soft icing based on sugar and egg whites
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Also called: icing. a sugar preparation, variously flavoured and coloured, for coating and decorating cakes, biscuits, etc
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a rough or matt finish on glass, silver, etc
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slang the practice of stealing a car while the owner has left it idling to defrost the windows and heat the engine
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A soft, spice-warmed cake that layers apples three ways—applesauce in the crumb, roasted chunks folded through and a tangy apple butter frosting on top.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 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
“Big wasn’t a crush, he was a crash,” Carrie says to Miranda as she peels down the wrapper on a cupcake topped with bright pink buttercream frosting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Fred thought about the time Susan had made him a meat loaf cake with mashed potato frosting for his birthday.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
“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
“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
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
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