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Frosting   /frˈɔstɪŋ/   Listen
Frosting

noun
1.
A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes.  Synonyms: ice, icing.



Frost

verb
(past & past part. frosted; pres. part. frosting)
1.
Decorate with frosting.  Synonym: ice.
2.
Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance.  "She frosts her hair"
3.
Cover with frost.
4.
Damage by frost.



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"Frosting" Quotes from Famous Books



... one lemon; one egg and yolks of two eggs; one dessertspoonful rolled cracker, scalded in two-thirds cup milk. Bake in a deep plate. After baking frost with the whites of two eggs beaten stiff, adding two spoonfuls of sugar. Brown the frosting ...
— Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman

... her baskets on the floor, and seating herself between them, she proceeded to develop their contents with ill-concealed triumph. One basket was devoted to cakes of every species, from the great Mont-Blanc loaf-cake, with its snowy glaciers of frosting, to the twisted cruller and puffy doughnut. In the other basket lay pots of golden butter curiously stamped, reposing on a bed of fresh, green leaves,—while currants, red and white, and delicious cherries and raspberries, gave a final finish ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... at all in fear of double-dealing, and crowded to get at the salt; the rocks where it was strewn were covered with more sheep than Ellen would have thought it possible could stand upon them. They were like pieces of floating ice heaped up with snow, or queen cakes with an immoderately thick frosting. It was one scene of pushing and crowding; those which had not had their share of the feast forcing themselves to get at it, and shoving others off in consequence. Ellen was wonderfully pleased. It was a ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner

... tablespoonful of Bakers chocolate in a dish; add one tablespoonful of flour, the yolks of two eggs, and one-half cup sugar; beat all together; add one pint sweet milk. Bake with lower crust. Take the whites of eggs for frosting. This ...
— Recipes Tried and True • the Ladies' Aid Society

... down on Stillwater. Again the great wall of pines and hemlocks made a gloom against the sky. The moon rose from behind the tree-tops, frosting their ragged edges, and then sweeping up to the zenith hung serenely above the world, as if there were never a crime, or a tear, or a ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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