frosting
a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.
a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.
a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.
Idioms about frosting
the frosting on the cake, something added to make a thing better or more desirable.: Also icing on the cake.
Origin of frosting
1Other words from frosting
- non·frost·ing, adjective
Words Nearby frosting
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How to use frosting in a sentence
While a picnic-specific cake didn’t bring up any immediate associations, it still implied a treat that was easy to transport and eat, and not laden with rich, meltable frosting.
A Blueberry-Glazed Cornbread Cake That Proves the Side Dish Can Be Dessert | Joy Cho | July 9, 2021 | EaterSometimes served cold, sometimes not, the cookies are surprisingly hefty but rarely dry, and thick, immobile pads of rosy frosting render each one tooth-achingly sweet.
I finished the entire roll and used my finger to eat the remaining bits of frosting.
Pandemic baking for my son helped me realize it’s not about the cinnamon rolls | Brenda Janowitz | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostI served the cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven, just like the recipe described, and drizzled the frosting on top.
Pandemic baking for my son helped me realize it’s not about the cinnamon rolls | Brenda Janowitz | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostI prefer a conservative approach, wanting the cake layers and frosting to complement one another.
This carrot cake with brown butter-cream cheese frosting will keep you coming back for more | Olga Massov | April 1, 2021 | Washington Post
Flecks of frosting tumble in slow motion to light on his belly, which gently swells beneath a black sweater.
The Stacks: The True Greatness of Muhammad Ali | Peter Richmond | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a little balance, people can try the Cinnabon Delights – i.e. little donuts heaped with frosting.
And when it premièred she made a kind of birthday cake, with only the single word “HAPPY” spelled out in frosting.
Kickstarter's 'Veronica Mars Movie Project' a Smash Success | Michael Daly | April 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTJust grab a big brush, pen, spray paint can, fat chalk, or cake frosting, find a blank, legal surface, and go to town.
For the frosting, combine the butter and sugar until smooth, then stir in the coffee.
Marriage ought to have some frosting besides what's on the wedding cake.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamI think a tomato can sandwich, and some brown paper cake with paste frosting on would be nice.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels | Howard R. GarisThe logs are the soft, brown color of good gingerbread, and the little windows must be made of sugar frosting.
The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires | Laura Dent CraneCover with plain white frosting and ornament with icing in any desired way.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesMuch of the surface was crusted with a fine frosting; it was full of wells deep enough to sink a man in.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren Stoddard
British Dictionary definitions for frosting
/ (ˈfrɒstɪŋ) /
a soft icing based on sugar and egg whites
Also called: icing a sugar preparation, variously flavoured and coloured, for coating and decorating cakes, biscuits, etc
a rough or matt finish on glass, silver, etc
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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