Anyone else grossed out by cakes and especally cupcakes with way too much frosting?

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Anonymous wrote:It's so nice to see Americans are finally coming to their senses when it comes to food in general and sweets in particular.

I hope you are not making the error of confusing DCUM posters with typical Americans.

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I hate the overly sweet American frosting, usually full of artificial coloring and preservatives anyway, so yes, it's disgusting.

Now if I make my own frosting, or eat something made fresh by a really good bakery that doesn't make it too sweet, that's a different story!

WTF is "American frosting"? In most countries isn't frosting made with some combination of butter and/or shortening and sugar? If not, what recipe is your favorite from this "non-American" place?

There are actually different types of frostings. American buttercream is made with butter, cream, powdered sugar, and flavorings (such as vanilla). It tends to be a bit sweeter than Italian buttercream or Swiss buttercream, which are more like meringues, or German buttercream, which has a custard base.

FWIW, to me a cupcake is merely a frosting delivery vehicle.

There's typically no cream in buttercream. Just sugar, egg whites, and butter.

That’s true for Swiss and Italian buttercreams; American buttercream has no eggs, but it does typically have a little bit of milk or cream (and a lot of butter).

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Anonymous wrote:Um, the whole point of a cupcake is the frosting.

Preach! I'm with the husband who eats the frosting and gives away the cake part.

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I scrape off most of the frosting.

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Anonymous wrote:These types of cupcakes are popular because of aesthetics and because of our sugar addicted society. Obese sugar fiends taking cupcake pictures to put on social media.

Everyone I know who puts cupcake pics on social is skinny and doesn’t eat much lol

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Anonymous wrote:We remove most of frosting. Too mcuh for our family taste.

We? Family taste? Wait, my whole family is supposed to have a unanimous opinion on cupcakes?

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Instead of mounds of blah frosting, they should put a small amount of actually real good butter cream frosting!

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Anonymous wrote:We remove most of frosting. Too mcuh for our family taste.

We? Family taste? Wait, my whole family is supposed to have a unanimous opinion on cupcakes?

+1
Sounds co-dependent.

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Anonymous wrote:These types of cupcakes are popular because of aesthetics and because of our sugar addicted society. Obese sugar fiends taking cupcake pictures to put on social media.

Everyone I know who puts cupcake pics on social is skinny and doesn’t eat much lol

I’m pretty sure PP is this weirdo who is obsessed with some overweight people she knows and posts incessantly about them going around in a “pod” to travel, eat, drink, and socialize. She monitors their social media when they share photos and doesn’t approve of it.

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Anonymous wrote:These types of cupcakes are popular because of aesthetics and because of our sugar addicted society. Obese sugar fiends taking cupcake pictures to put on social media.

Everyone I know who puts cupcake pics on social is skinny and doesn’t eat much lol

I’m pretty sure PP is this weirdo who is obsessed with some overweight people she knows and posts incessantly about them going around in a “pod” to travel, eat, drink, and socialize. She monitors their social media when they share photos and doesn’t approve of it.

I’m the poster with the obese cruise/Disney acquaintances, but I am not this PP. Haven’t posted about them in months.

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Because Americans are obese and over eat. Everything is huge portions and over the top. Haven’t you noticed?

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Love the frosting.

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I’m just not picky about any of this. Lots of frosting or just a little, super sweet or not…I’ll probably like it as long as it’s made well.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, the whole point of a cupcake is the frosting.

Yes! I love the frosting!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, no, I like having 'extra' frosting so I can eat more if I choose.

+1. Love frosting. The reason that they put so much on is that it makes the cupcake look better with that swirl of frosting.