The Icing on the Cake?

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My mum never ices our Xmas cake on the grounds that 'we are all eating enough fattening food at Xmas anyway without icing'. It seems a small area to make cutbacks in and one which I object to having an extremely sweet tooth. Do you think she's right to avoid the sweet delicious almondy marzipan and sugary crystalline icing, mmmmm?

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

marzipan = wuvvly, icing = meh.

― chris, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your mum has betrayed Christmas and all that it stands for. My dad almond pastes the cake, then ices it, then puts jellies all over it, then makes a further cake out of the almond paste.

i don't much like the cake, so i just eat the icing/paste/sweets and leave the cake husk for compost.

― nickie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mum is Jewish which could explain the betrayal of Xmas, although she does do a great baked ham.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

does she cover the ham in almond paste and icing?

― nickie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If only. Just mustard and cloves and brown sugar - hang on a minute! Sugar on the ham but not the cake! Something is amiss.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i smell double standards.

― nickie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worrying about eating too much fattening food over Christmas is surely missing the whole damn point. Your mum is a fule.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No my mum is just making excuses for her laziness that she knows I will not respond to as if I say 'no mum there is not enough lardy food round here I DEMAND MORE' she will launch into an ego-shattering critique of my figure including well known favourites such as 'you don't exactly look like you're starving you know'. Grrr.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your mum understands that a rich fruit cake should not be sullied with icing. Please eat it with a nice sharp crumbly cheese.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is any other part of the cake even edible?

― Graham, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like Stilton? What a waste of nummy stilton! Port and stilton = best way to round off Xmas dinner NOT Xmas pud.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MARZIPAN mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *dribble* *dribble* *droooooooooooooooolllll* *slaver* unnnnnnh

― katie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wenslydale, Caerphilly, Cheshire, that kind of thing. Enjoy your Stilton however else.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

even a very good (i.e. not supermarket pre-packed rubbish) Cheddar. A proper cheddar is a fine cheese indeed, given a bad name by the lumps of plastic served pre-packed in Supermarkets. Get thee to Neils yard dairy to see what I mean.

― chris, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are all wrong! Icing is lovely and marzipan is the devil's toenail scrapings. I have persuaded my mum not to put marzipan on our cake, just double icing, hooray! (It didn't take much persuading, probably also due to laziness on her part.)

― liz, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That would really irk my mum - she leaves off the fattening icing and I replace it with fattening cheese, ha ha ha. Perhaps someone could salvage a bit of icing and marzipan from their cake and give it to me when I'm back in London so I don't have to go without?

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We stick with apple pie, which my mom is a whiz at making. Yow.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will get you some off my mothers attempt at 'cake' which i shant be eating due to not doing xmas (which is looking harder and harder as it approaches) and also xmas cake and marzipan are satan's own work. along with xmas pud, mince pies (where's the meat?) and any pudding involving warm fruit. if you fancy a nice yule log, Sainsbury's have a lovely one. It's 2.79 and in a goldish box. I tasted some . it was lovely.

― alix, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma if I remember I will get you a cake goodie bag since Mum drops the health kick for one day a year and Christmas is it. Marzipan and icing a go-go! (And no cheese!)

― Tom, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mum has decided that royal icing is bad and puts a fondant icing on instead. Only my dad really likes Christmas cake so it's all a bit of a waste of time anyway.

― N., Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My dad made a yule log last year. It was beautiful and chocolaty and decorated, and very very rich. mmm....

― Maria, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmm, marzipan. *mops drool off keyboard* Not a huge icing fan but it's all right and if it means I get marzipan I'm happy.

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cor blimey! My mum gets the cake ready made from the shop! To be honest I'd rather eat Victoria Sponge and jam tarts. Marzipan = ick, Icing gives me toothache and I have to sit there wincing, whilst people say "well, I told you should've gone to the dentist."....

But to answer the question...the Xmas cake should be iced.

― james, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes! Wrong! She should ice half the cake and then leave the rest uniced for those who really want to watch their weight (and most of the time those people make me very angry...live it up for God's sake!). Bah, one should think about enjoying things in the holiday season, not cutting back on them because of societal pressures. Bah to the uniced cakes.

― kimera, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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