Sugarcoating

Usage examples of icing.

Bake in three buttered and floured shallow cake tins, and spread between the layers and on top the following icing: Put in a saucepan three cups sugar, one cup water.

She did her best not to linger over the white, lathery circles she made, but the swirling patterns icing those solid muscles enticed her.

Crystal, whose face was smeared with chocolate, was scooping icing from the can with her finger.

Bake in little plain patty pans and cover the top of each with white icing.

Grandma a constant, a clock, a pendulum, a face to tell all time by at noon, or in the middle of sick nights when, raved with fever, we saw her forever by our beds, never gone, never away, always waiting, always speaking kind words, her cool hand icing our hot brows, the tappet of her uplifted forefinger unsprung to let a twine of cold mountain water touch our flannel tongues.

The next morning, after her brownfields testimony, Whitman improvised her final, creative step, a sort of icing on this confection.

Several tubes ran from his arms, some to instill the icing solution, some to drain it off in a constant recirculation of the hypothermic solution.

Even though the day outside was stunningly clear and bright, harsh sunlight spilling across the dark black of the nonskid on the flight deck, there was always the danger of icing as moisture from the air condensed on metal surfaces.

But to this house had been added towers, oriel windows, and cathedral windows, these last with a topping of painted bargeboards, like icing on a cake, utterly out of keeping with anything else.

Actually, the best way to prepare Wrigglers is to strip, wash, and sprinkle lightly with salt before icing.

There were also homemade scones to eat with mulberry jam and clotted cream, walnut, lemon and chocolate cakes, beautifully decorated on top and groaning with butter icing inside and a huge rainbow cake on whose white icing she had piped in blue: london met V.

Without missing a beat, my mother took a butter knife out of the silverware drawer, scooped some icing off the top of the cake, smeared the icing on the side Bob had licked clean, and sprinkled coconut all around the cake.

Only one of those chocolate cream-filled cupcakes with the squiggly line of white icing.

And if these really are Peep commerce raiders, that's just extra icing on the cake!

Bob had a piece of white confectioners' sugar icing clinging to his lip.