CAKE TIME

[Formalhaut]

If the cake is good: the cake.
If the cake is dry: the icing (or frosting, or whatever. I would call it icing).

Pretty much.

Though I will say if one part of the cake HAD to be good and the other bad, the cake has to be better. I mean, it does form the majority of the cake. But a good icing can save an otherwise a rather dry cake.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Both.

[fire_of_avalon]

Am I the only person who calls it frosting?

Frosting is what you put on a cake. It doesn't dry out and retains the same consistency with age.
Icing is what you put on a cookie. It dries and creates almost a glaze.

I don't know and I don't see why I should have to choose between the two anyway

This is correct... because you can't separate cake and frosting. It's like Penn and Teller, Romeo and Juliet, peanut butter and jelly... one isn't the same without the other. The frosting brings out the best parts of the cake and vice versa. They should never be parted or pit against one another for the sake of sport, Samantha, and frankly I am saddened you would do such a thing.

[Sephex]

eat my shorts foa

But why would you put shorts on a cake?

[MissH]

Noo! I'm so shocked by the results of this!! Don't get me wrong, ideally I would have both. But icing/frosting is amazing!! I could probably eat a whole bowl of just icing. Buttercream-especially chocolate- is just the best thing ever! Mmm!!!