# Extra Frosting! Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785 "2009-12-18T20:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/1 "2009-12-18T20:10:01Z")
Baked some very yummy lemon/pineapple cupcakes, made a lovely buttercream icing (my first effort!) and iced them. They look most lovely. However I have over a cup of lovely frosting left. Any suggestions? Will it keep? I can’t bake anything just now as I have a stuffed turkey in the oven! I’m dying to know what experienced bakers do with left over frosting, something creative I bet! ---
**Author:** ![ThirdOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@ThirdOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdOne)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/2 "2009-12-18T20:25:59Z")
Ohhh! My mom used to decorate cakes all the time (or it seemed so). She was very, very talented. Left over frosting always went on graham crackers. Either open faced or as a “sandwich.” Of course, you have to like graham crackers to enjoy it, but I remember it quite fondly and would love it even now. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/3 "2009-12-18T20:31:01Z")
Use a spoon. Scoop up and insert into mouth of any passersby. With three/sometimes four teens in the house, no frosting survives more than an hour or two. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/4 "2009-12-18T20:59:55Z")
A spoon A finger A butter knife Any of the above work well. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/5 "2009-12-18T21:05:40Z")
Extra frosting? I understand what those two words mean separately, but together they make no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/6 "2009-12-18T21:20:18Z")
I keep it in the fridge for a week or two. You could probably freeze it as well. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/7 "2009-12-18T22:20:17Z")
I was like EXTRA frosting? Why not just heap more of it on each cupcake? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/8 "2009-12-18T22:53:06Z")
1. Freeze - Unless it’s French buttercream with beaten egg, it will keep perfectly in the freezer forever. 2. Refrigerate for a long time 3. Bake another cake 4. Do the graham cracker thing, but build a pseudo-gingerbread house out of them, using the frosting as grout. Actually, that would be a waste of good frosting unless you actually eat the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/9 "2009-12-18T23:31:25Z")
My mom always kept graham crackers in the house just to absorb extra frosting. I loved it. Thanks for bringing back a great memory!..TRM ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/10 "2009-12-19T01:12:56Z")
My mom froze leftover buttercream icing. I remember watching her make a chocolate cake and being amazed that she had this mish-mash of pink and green and yellow icing to which she added melted baker’s chocolate and – voila! – chocolate icing. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/11 "2009-12-19T01:57:45Z")
Seriously? I’ve never had “extra” frosting. There’s always room for more on the cake. Or in my tummy. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/12 "2009-12-19T03:59:27Z")
Put it into a sealed container in the refrigerator, where it will keep very nicely for weeks. Unless it calls out to you in the middle of the night, in which case you can whittle away at it a spoonful at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/13 "2009-12-19T11:07:46Z")
Take two vanilla wafers. Spread frosting on flat side of one. Put flat side of other cookie against frosting. Eat. Repeat as needed. Or just spread a dab of frosting on the round side of each cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/14 "2009-12-19T20:02:55Z")
You can crumble up cake into frosting, roll it into balls and dip it in/pour over a glaze like melted almond bark or melted chocolate. The recipes I’ve seen for that use cake mix and canned frosting, so I don’t know the proportions for homemade stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/15 "2009-12-19T20:06:10Z")
> [@ThirdOne](#): > > Left over frosting always went on graham crackers. Either open faced or as a “sandwich.” Of course, you have to like graham crackers to enjoy it, but I remember it quite fondly and would love it even now. Yes, this is the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/16 "2009-12-19T20:57:13Z")
What about those plain, just biscuit, dark chocolate cookies from the store? The ones that taste like the outsides of oreos. I bet that’d be good! ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/17 "2009-12-19T22:45:27Z")
A variation on graham crackers: sandwich some peanut butter between two graham crackers, then spread frosting on the tops. As I think back to my mother’s kitchen, those rare treats were even better than the cake, especially when the frosting was chocolate (which it always was). ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/18 "2009-12-20T00:45:14Z")
Take two vanilla wafers, connect them Oreo-style with the frosting, eat, enjoy, repeat. Share, if feeling generous. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/19 "2009-12-20T01:04:17Z")
Send it here, I’ve got graham crackers. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785/20 "2009-12-20T01:17:23Z")
Just in from the discount grocery and they did not have the plain chocolate wafers and they did not have graham crackers. Tres disappointed. So I bought some healthy thing with whole grains, cranberries and such. But they’re thin. I’ll put the frosting between them and see how that works out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-frosting-now-what/521785.md?page=2)