Snazzie's Icing en Frosting recipes:
There is icing and frosting to decorate cake, cupcakes and biscuits but when you have not been baking that long, it can be confusing. The names are used at random, both in the UK and US. They call it icing and frosting, but often they mean the same thing. In recipes, the words icing (a glaze) and frosting (butter cream) are often also used interchangeably, which gives an amateur baker the idea that it must be the same thing, but that is not correct.
There is indeed an important difference: icing is based on sugar while frosting is based on butter. Which of course does not mean thet in recipes icing has mostly sugar in it and frosting mostly butter, oh no, that would be to simple! While icing is always mostly sugar and although frosting has a lot of sugar in it, it also a good amount of butter is incorporated.
But when and for what do you use what?
Icing (or Royal Icing) is almost always used on biscuitss, but it is also very tasty and it also looks really pretty on cake or cupcakes!
Frosting (Butter cream)
