The term “boiled icing” is used in two ways. First, boiled icings is a generic term for a group of cake icings (aka frostings) that are “boiled”; more accurately, made usually from a hot sugar syrup, and / or cooked over a double boiler. Many were very economical, avoiding the use of eggs or fat…
Icing
Icing and Frosting
What frosting and icing mean probably depends partly on where you are, and partly on what your mother and grandmother thought they meant.In the UK, usually only the term “icing” is used. In America, “icing” is used colloquially, but people have tended to use frosting in writing, perhaps because it sounds like a more proper…
Royal Icing
Royal Icing is a thin icing mixture that dries to be very, very hard.No fat is used in the icing mix. It’s made from egg white and icing sugar. The absence of fat lets it dry rock hard; fat would keep it soft. In the UK, it used for the “high holiday” cakes — Christmas…