Photo from Boots In The OvenAnother triumph for the happy union of sweet and salty. Logan at Boots In The Oven recalls a favorite snack from childhood that he's never given up: canned frosting on crackers. "Yup, my favorite is cream cheese frosting with Premium brand saltines," he says. "Original flavor." Sweet and gooey on salty and crunchy... almost like Nutella on tortilla chips....
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From left: icing; frosting. Or is it the other way around?! Is this an issue of semantics? Like jimmies versus sprinkles? And banana peppers versus pepperoncini? Cakespy says the terms are ultimately interchangeable, but a little research in Cake, the new Williams-Sonoma cookbook, proves "an icing is generally thinner and glossier," while frosting is "a thick, fluffy mixture, such as buttercream, used to coat the outside of a cake." Then there's glaze (oy!) which is more slippery and thinner than the other two. Where do you stand on the debate? Don't fret too much. At the end of the day, our veins are full of sugar and happy cells....
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A long national nightmare is about to end very soon, when McCormick launches black food coloring on the market—finally, bakers everywhere will no longer have to endure the indignity of mixing all their different colors together in hope of getting a muddy gray dark enough to pass. Retired Chicago-area teacher Betsy Friduss bakes that staple of every New York deli, the black-and-white cookie, and usually makes her icing "a very, very dark brown. I've never done anything in true black," Friduss said. "I could go nuts." [thanks, Andrew]...
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