frosting

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frosting (plural frostings)

A sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods.
- 1914, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, pages 38–39:
  
  “ […] Cities aren’t like frosted cake — and, anyhow, even the cake didn’t keep very well. I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting. I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”
A layer of frost.
The theft of an car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.^[1]

a sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods

a layer of frost

The plural form is used for multiple varieties of frosting; a single type of frosting is itself uncountable.

frosting