Frosting the cake is also a customizing feature: some like to frost the top only, or the sides only- to me the more frosting the better so I frost the entire cake.

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We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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And if someone dared to, she could just as easily reach for her wedding cake and slap frosting into their faces as Kim once did to her mother, who in a brilliant twist has the same name as her new husband.

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Before each bite of a cupcake, I carefully peeled the paper away from the tender buttery cake and billowy buttercream frosting and saved it for last.

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"Another four years would have been frosting on the cake, but we have a nice cake now, " said William Borucki, the project's principal scientist.

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Anyone who dives into a moist, buttery slice filled with thick, textured frosting will agree that Carrie's coconut cake would have done her entire family proud.

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Meanwhile, prepare the Chocolate Marshmallow Frosting, or another frosting that would go well with the flavor of the ice cream in the cake.

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Her affection was entwined with nostalgia for the cake her adored grandmother would make for her childhood birthdays: cherry angel food, with white fluffy frosting.

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