Cake covering

The answer

ICING

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ICING answer page.

Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• FONDANT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ICING

Every other clue in this collection answered by ICING, most used first.

• Hockey infraction - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake topping - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake topper - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Cake coating - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake cover - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Cupcake topper - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Cupcake topping - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Cupcake covering - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Cake decoration - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Frosting - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• ___ on the cake - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Sugarcoating - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Best part of the cake, to some - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Cake frosting - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Pastry bag filler - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Rich cake - TORTE, used 234 times
• Seed covering - TESTA, used 54 times
• Words on a Wonderland cake - EATME, used 40 times
• Window covering - DRAPE, used 38 times
• Tea cake - SCONE, used 36 times
• Wedding cake layers - TIERS, used 34 times

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