frosting

Example Sentences

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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

Susan Prunty’s bakery in Medford, Ore., sold about 25 Christmas cookie decorating kits through the middle of last December, complete with a dozen freshly baked sugar cookies, buttercream frosting, and sprinkles.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Someone asked Perkins about the colors, how she got the frosting to look the way it did.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

On it, written in yellow on a sea of fudgy frosting, were these words: “Open a Book and Open Your Mind.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein