What Kind of Icing on Your Cake

My favorite cake frosting has not changed since my answer on 3/12/08.

TW
 
Mine hasnt either
 
Real Cream Cheese icing on my mom's home made carrot cake.  I wish Birthday's came more than once a year

I like plain cake---NO Icing!

I'm more of a glaze or drizzle person than heavy frosting or icing. Actually, the term "icing" brings to mind a thin layer of the stuff, more so than "frosting." And I want the real stuff, butter or cream cheese, real cream, real chocolate, real flavorings - no Crisco!
 
I love mocha buttercream on yellow cake, dark chocolate glaze on a dense chocolate one layer cake, cream cheese icing on carrot cake, or a lemon glaze on pound cake.  For me, it's all about the cake - not about the frosting.

Back in the late 40's early 50's, my grandmother baked in a wood fired stove and made the lightest cakes I have ever tasted.
My favorite was a yellow, very moist cake, covered with a tan almost caramel tasting buttery frosting. This, if I remember correctly, involved many egg whites being whipped by hand.
It was a wonder to behold, and all done on a behemoth of a wood stove.
She used no recipes to pass down, and children like me weren't allowed to get near the stove.
Now I would loved to have been able to have learned from her, and have never tasted a frosting like hers.
She lived in the hardscrabble hills of Appalachia.

I enjoy buttercream but not over the entire cake. Since buttercream tends to be extremely sweet, I break it up by putting cool whip on the top of the cake and leave the butter cream for the sides. It's good if you have family members who dont like cake too sweet ( cool whip ) or if they have a super sweet tooth ( buttercream ). Just my little trick.