Mind-blowing Icing.

The other day Dominga was going over to her friend's house with Clarissa, and she was making a cake to take over with her. Nothing too extravagant, just a simple plain sponge cake (okay, she told me she cheated because it was from a packet). But a cake all the same.

When it was out of the oven and cooling down, I asked her if she was going to ice it.

"Eye sit?" She looked at me confused.
"You know, ice the cake. We say the white stuff on top of the cake is the 'icing' with icing sugar - "

At 'icing sugar' she made an 'ahh!' face, opened the cupboard and got out a little packet of icing sugar.

"...mixed with water," I finished.
"What?" she looked at me again.
"With water?"
"Yeah, you know when you mix it with water it makes a thick sort of paste."

She looked at me incredulously. I hesitated.

"You've never mixed it with water...?"
"No... What is 'icing'? It's sweet?"
"Oh yes. It's loooooovely."

Oh my gosh. They'd never made icing. Quite easily the best part of making the cake; mixing up the icing and then licking the bowl when the cakes are done.

So we decided I would ice the cake once it was cool and Dominga could see what icing was.

As I shook the icing sugar into a bowl and mixed in some water, she just stared, amazed, at the white paste that was forming. Mind blown. I spooned the icing into a plastic bag, snipped the end and then piped a lattice across the cake (it was too big to ice the entire thing..).

"Woah-wow!" she said.
"Go on, try it."
"Mmmmm!"

Dominga saved me a bit - apparently the icing went down well.

It didn't even look that impressive, just plain white icing and plain cake but I'd successfully blown Dominga's mind.

Ahh yeah. Mission accomplished - introduce icing to the world of non-icing eaters.

[Next stop: fairy cakes!]