On 2018-07-26 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/26/2018 5:00 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>> 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.Â* If is is Crisco and
> sugar, count me out.Â* My favorite cake is a pound cake with no icing but
> a really good crust.

One of the few cakes I liked when I was a kid had that Crisco white
icing, It was a white cake with white. What was good about it was that
it had raspberry jam between the two layers and it was covered in
coconut flakes.