frosting

Example Sentences

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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

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

It features apples in three forms: a tender, applesauce-sweetened cake; diced, spiced roasted apples; and a tangy, fragrant apple butter–cream cheese frosting.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

We slathered pink frosting all over them and I ate so many that I was stuffed by the time Mom came home from errands and Dad came home from work and it was dinnertime.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy