The Evils of Buttercream

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September 24, 2007: What should go in a Harry Potter fanfic: buttercream frosting or buttercream icing?

Silly question! Oncelikeshari knows that buttercream icing is evil, not British in any way, and should not exist at all. Also, it's wasteful of butter and sugar (won't you think of the rationing in World War II?). There are class issues.

But is she aware that the icing on carrot cake she despises so is not, in fact, buttercream but cream cheese? Oh, well, it's all equally vile!

Buttercream icing is terrible! British people don't eat it!

...No matter how many people insist that they do.

• Wank Report

Quotes

• 'Anything as soft as eg butter icing would not be on top of a cake, only in the middle; you don't want people's hands to get messy when eating the cake.
  And on that subject, eating cake with a fork is seen as very pretentious. It is usually confined to fancy foreign things like "Black Forest Gateau" which are eaten as desserts (with fork and spoon), not, like cake, as a thing at teatime, elevenses or some other time during the day between proper meals.' -- Oncelikeshari[1]
• 'We have cake decorators in my family and they never use butter icing for anything other than a filling. They are working class cake decorators so maybe that's it.' -- ibid[2]
• 'I do not call that stuff the slather over carrot cake icing, that is vile gunk made from butter.
  If you write icing then nobody is picturing that revolting stuff, they're picturing the fondant icing that you use on fruit cakes or the stuff make from icing sugar that you squeeze out of a bag to decorate.
  I've never seen or eaten a cake (this is normal cake and not a cream cake)with sloppy icing on it.' -- ibid[3]
• 'No I grew up eating Mum-baked cakes and mu mother grew up during rationing. You do not waste perfectly good butter and sugar on cakes.'-- ibid[4]

splorch: You do not waste perfectly good butter and sugar on cakes.
UR DOIN IT RONG.

tehrin: But then...how are we supposed to MAKE cakes? Baking requires butter and sugar!

llama_treats: Yeah, but that's in the cake. Putting it on top is, like, overkill 'n shit.

tehrin: Only if it's buttercream. Proper icing is nothing like that.

splorch: Seriously. I want to know what kind of weird-ass cakes she is making. Next thing you know, people will be wasting eggs in cake!
Dogs and cats! Living together! MASS HYSTERIA!

-- in the wank report comments

• puipui: They are wanking about frosting. They are wanking about frosting. That is so, so, so beautiful. *wipes away a single happy tear*

jetamors: Icing, Pui. They're wanking about icing.

tehrin: FROSTING, DAMN IT. FROSTING.

puipui: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF FROSTING! I DO!

tehrin: I DON'T BAKE CAKES, BUT I KNOW CAKE BAKERS! I KNOW WHAT TRUE OPPRESSION FROSTING IS LIKE!

puipui: HAVE YOU EVER FROSTED A CAKE AT THE EDGE OF A MASS GRAVE?!?

tehrin: I'M TIRED OF THIS MOTHER FUCKIN' BUTTERCREAM ON THIS MOTHER FUCKIN' CAKE!

-- and much, much more, in this thread

Addendum

If you should choose to use waste butter in your frosting icing frosting cake topping, for god's sake don't soften it in the microwave. [5]