What could be more delicious than a food that is already a bit questionable in its health merits (white bread) topped with pure sugar, butter and food colouring?
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ossibly the best feature of icing is its ability to increase the Points value of anything in a heartbeat. Then it can be used to further amp up the sugar and fat levels by being used as glue to stick on other tasty treats such as sprinkles and chocolate and mini M&Ms!
It really is a super food.
Some foods that I think could benefit from a good icing:
- Milkshakes. Especially the kind with loads of soft serve and flavour syrup. It would never set, but if you made it really runny, it would go up a straw a treat.
- Baked potatoes. It could be a like a new fusion food revolution: potatoes for dessert or afternoon tea with your cup of Lady Grey. Alternatively it could be drizzled over french fries instead of aioli.
- Pizza. A close relation to bread or cake, I know, but maybe a flavoured icing could replace the traditional sauce base. No? Maybe not.
Anyway, icing is everyone's forgotten friend. The nostalgia of a wine biscuit smothered in pink icing and topped with Pebbles will be with me forever, and an iced bun wrapped in plastic in a Little Mermaid lunch box - it's unbeatable.