When did we start saying frosting instead of icing?

[StealthPolarBear]

It is a thread about a thread, but only because it reminded me I've been wanting to rant about that for a while.

When I was a child, cakes had icing

I don't think I have ever said frosting

are icing and frosting just BrE and AmE or are they different things altogether?

They still have icing in mu house.
Fairy cakes with icing in fact, none of this cupcake nonsense.

Thought frosting was different - fluffier etc. Icing is hard and made from icing sugar and water. Frosting is made from cream cheese and icing sugar (I think). Like you have on carrot cake. Whereas icing on Victoria sponge.

I blame Betty Crocker.

I always thought the same as sausage that they were completely different and made from different things.

what's BrE and AmE?

well why didn't we have frosting back in the 80s? or was it just me?

I didn't.

Butter cream icing isn't hard.

Sometimes I just use melted chocolate (Milka Daim is gorgeous on chocolate cakes) but then I'd say I'd iced the cakes with it, not frosted them.

I only say icing.
But that's because I can't be arsed to make frosting - according to my recipe book it requires cooking FFS. Can barely cope with making buttercream icing, in fact the last lot was just icing sugar and stawberry juice mixed together and drizzled.

Icing and something called American frosting were different things. Glace icing (sorry don't know how to do acute accent on this keyboard) was smooth and flat. Royal icing set hard in peaks and could be used for Christmas cakes. I believe that American frosting was fluffy and softer (but I may be wrong). Anyway, the American frosting conquered the other two at some point and now it's all frosting; but not in my house.

Frosting is American. And we seem to find it impossible to avoid Americanisms. We now have fucking sweet 16s and fucking proms, for fucks sake....

Its definitely down to Betty Crocker.

What does Princess Delia say?

We didn't.

pagwatch should that be "for fuck's sake". (This is pedants' corner!)

Ctrl Alt e all pressed together will give é.
BrE = British English
AmE = American English

I will never use frosting or say frosting because it has always been icing and will always be icing to me (although we do use buttercream as well).

Fairycakes too.

Frosting is different to icing but it seem to be popular in the USA and has migrated over the Atlantic.
With icing you can have:
glacé icing
royal icing
and you can make buttercream icing which is probably closest in consistency to frosting.
All of the above can be made in a bowl or a food processor.
Frosting on the other hand needs to be 'cooked' i.e. you make it in a pan, it is runny when you put in on the cake but it sets.
The terms icing and frosting are not interchangeable terms IMHO.

Oh bugger it - I forgot the question mark in my earlier posting correcting someone else's apostrophe usage.

Agree with sausageroll and smac - they are very different, and we started saying froting whe we started baking American cakes such as Betty Crocker. NB, look up Red Velvet Cake and cook this - it is dreamy!!!

'of the Uooooooooo essss Ey' how old is that?

yes - fairy cakes with icing.