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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/26/2018 5:00 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-07-26 2:11 PM, wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 1:00:59 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>>>
>>> Neither of us care for icing so if it's already iced we scrape it off.
>>> We prefer a light dusting of powdered sugar or cocoa.
>>>
>>>
>> Icing is the only reason I eat cake.Â* Pass me that scraped off icing.
>
> I can live without the icing. Icing is probably the reason I don't eat
> much cake. I have a hard time making icing because it requires tasting
> the stuff while you are making it and eating straight icing does weird
> things to my guts. I do occasionally bake a cake, but my wife makes the
> icing.
>
>
A little bit is OK if it is a good buttercream. If is is Crisco and
sugar, count me out. My favorite cake is a pound cake with no icing but
a really good crust.