On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:21:08 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:25:26 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> > wrote:
>
> >I am so embarrassed and ashamed. A friend asked me for my recipe for
> >chocolate cake frosting. She loves mine. Enjoyed it here many times.
> > There is nothing in my heart that would prompt me to hide special
> >touches or techniques to make her look like an 'also ran' cook. I wanted
> >her to enjoy success and compliments.
> > It's the ordinary 'in every cookbook' recipe where you bake a sheet cake
> >and pour a chocolate frosting on top while the cake is still hot out of the
> >oven.
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>
> This is a very ordinary frosting recipe. It's probably on the back of
> every powdered sugar box. I have never heard that you 'pour' it onto
> a 'hot' cake. When I make it, it spreads. Doesn't pouring onto a hot
> cake make it soupy? I thought you only did that for something like a
> lemon or rum pound cake where you poked holes in a cake and poured a
> syrup over the cake.
> Does everyone else do this?

No. Only flavored syrup, as you mentioned.


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