icing

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Their cupcakes are feather-light (not the dense sort @ Crumb's) and the icing is a thin layer of sweet vanilla cream (not the sickening stick-of-butter per cupcake icing - at least it tastes as such - @ Buttercup or Magnolia).

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  1. noun A sweet glaze made of sugar, butter, water, and egg whites or milk, often flavored and cooked and used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies. See Regional Note at frosting.
  2. noun Sports A minor violation of the rules in ice hockey in which a player ices the puck, and the puck is not played by the goalie and does not go in the goal. Icing is not called when the team that has iced the puck is killing a penalty.
  3. idiom icing on the cake An additional benefit to something already good.

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  1. Verbal noun of ice, v.; = Icelandic īsing, sleet.
 

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/ˈaɪsɪŋ/
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