Too much icing on cake, especially cup cakes!

Apart from LardI am very partial to carrot cake which normally has a cream cheese icing so is not sickly. I agree too many cupcakes with too much icing. They may look good but not so good to eat.

I do agree that on store-bought cakes there is too much icing. I do like icing, and in fact just made my own birthday cake this week; a butter pecan cake with cream cheese icing (DH did offer to go buy a cake, but I prefer mine). It was very good, and the amount of icing was just right.

I'll take a nice home made cake over store bought any day.

How about this Victoria Sponge? Homemade.
Just not by me.
Great ingredients, no preservatives. Plain and simple cake, my favourite of all time.
Wish I could have cake but I’m on a low fat diet which is working so I’m happy.
Who said ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’?

I totally loathe the tendency to replace cake toppings with cream cheese often without labelling it as such. I have a severe reaction to even the smallest amount of cheese/yoghurt/creme fraiche. One bite and my innards are in turmoil for days.

MissAdventure

Just a,plain mince pie, mind.

None of this fancy icing or strange fillings.

Just so MissA why do retailers find it necessary to try and improve on perfection. Truly a case of over egging the pudding.

A nice wedge of chocolate cake please with generous buttercream filling but melted Cadbury chocolate on top, not more buttercream, otherwise I'll scrape it off

Who said ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’?

Kate Moss, I think.

And the Duchess of Windsor

‘A woman cannot be too rich or too thin’.

I think they're both too thin.
Just my thoughts.

Mine too! Pass the cake!

Urms - Kate Moss