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Michigan - we say frosting. We also eat frosting right out of the can.
I've definitely said both before...
However, just googled the definition for frosting and it says, simply, "icing".
The definition for Icing is a mixture of powder sugar and butter (or other liquid) to create a cover for cake.
So they're both the same thing!
I think I say both...but usually I think I say frosting. When I think icing, I think of a thinner frosting that you'd put on cookies. I'm from South Carolina.
I thought I used both interchangeably, but when I thought about it, I realize I use both frosting and icing to describe the stuff that goes on top of the cake or on sugar cookies, but when describing the white topping on something like cinnamon rolls or danishes, I only use icing. Weird.
@Neva: I think I'm the same way. I'd never say that cinnamon rolls had frosting; only icing. But I'd think a cookie or cake could have either.
@CarolinaCola: Maybe that's it. The thicker type on cakes can be either, but the thinner kind is icing, but not frosting.
Perhaps frosting is a subtype of icing?
@Neva: Ditto.. the icing is like the clearer, thinner stuff you put on a cinnamon bun, while frosting is thicker and for a cake. I'd never call the stuff on a cake "icing."
I'm from CT.
Icing here, but I thought it was a UK vs North America thing?
I'm from Indiana.
I call the stuff on cakes and cupcakes frosting and the stuff on sugar cookies and cinnamin rolls icing.
Frosting is the thicker stuff like on cakes. Icing is thin, like a glaze.
From Kansas.
Both. But I have found that with phrases I use "icing on the cake." I buy cans of frosting and I frost a cake. But once it's on there it's icing. :) I know. Weird. I'm originally from Wyoming. Not sure what the "thing" is out there though, if there is one.
I'd say interchangeably as well. Thick and delicious is frosting butthinner is icing.
I always say icing, but I have heard both in my region, western Canada.
i'm a cake decorator from MA/FL and at work i say icing, at home i say frosting.
I'm from Quebec, Canada. I would call what is on top of these cupcakes "Icing"!
Also, it's called Icing sugar here, not confectioners sugar!
Georgia. And I generally think the opposite. Everything is icing, but only cakes can also be frosting. Thin and clear, or thick and fluffy. I don't differentiate. And it's always "ice the cake (cookies, cinnamon rolls)." Never frost something.
@abbyful: I concur. But I'm from Minnesota.
I've never said I need to "ice a cake." Sounds like I should put it in the freezer or something. You frost cakes! (Which I realize now, also sounds like you should put it in the freezer. Just for less time...)
Frosting is for a cake.
Icing is for brownies or cinamon buns
I'm from Buffalo
I'm in Ontario and worked as a cake decorator as a bit. We FROSTED our cakes and cupcakes with ICING or a variation of icing. Even on the cake order forms it said "Icing selection".
I typically say icing but sometimes say frosting. I'm from the east coast (North Carolina to be exact).
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What do you call it and where are you from? My husband and I have an ongoing disagreement over which is right.