02 September 2011

a personal question

what do you do with the extra frosting after the cake is finished? of course i'm talking homemade frosting. sorry folks, but the store bought stuff is not really frosting. sure it looks, even smells like real frosting. but it is not real. i know, i know. cake snobbery. but the fact remains.

anyway, back to the question at hand. do you toss it? spread it on graham crackers the next day for a poor man's sandwich cookie? keep it in the fridge for a few days because it is such good stuff but then finally toss it once you realize there will always be another tasty treat in your life? what do you do?


9 comments:

Lindsey Hicks said...

I'm a graham cracker spreader but my mother in law freezes leftover frosting to use for brownies and such.

Janice said...

Graham cracker cookies.

Josette said...

great question kel. i usually keep the leftovers (if any) for graham crackers just to end up throwing it out a few days later. OR, i just gob a ton of frosting on the cake. i love frosting...if it's the good kind.
i also despise store frosting. nasty.

Kelly M said...

This is like you read my mind that last 10 times I made cakes. Always the dilemma. Great question.

ash said...

Jess is a big graham cracker spreader. I, on the other hand, usually leave it in the fridge just for him. To me, frosting is best enjoyed on a cake, and usually only a cake. So we've got a good teamwork cooperation thing going on with extree frosting. That delicious butter and powdered sugar mix is hard to throw away for sure!

cate said...

I used to be a graham cracker spreader but now that I recognize I have no control with frosting - I have become a tosser. Wasteful but helps me maintain a body that could go for a run or swim the next day without feeling like rubbish. I am also partial to Josette's method of being super generous frosting the cake.

jo said...

Gee, I'm pretty sure I've been known to have a spoonful just for good measure and then toss. I'm not a big fan of frosting on anything but a cake (like ash), but I can appreciate a graham cracker sand, and I thinking freezing for future deliciousness is a fabulous idea.

jo said...

p.s. I love your newest prints!

Muriel said...

Since I don't follow a recipe when making frosting, I am usually worried that there won't be enough (because it *never* looks like enough in the bowl). Then when it turns out there was plenty, my kids each get a taste and if we have those awesome Winnie the Pooh animal crackers from Costco, that's what it goes on. It's a poor man's E.L. Fudge cookie.