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Couverture vs Icing - What's the difference?

couverture | icing |

As nouns the difference between couverture and icing

is that couverture is chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets; such a covering while icing is a sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.

As a verb icing is

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couverture

English

Noun

(wikipedia couverture) (-)
  • chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets; such a covering.

    • References

    * OED2 ----

    icing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Gerund of the verb . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
  • (ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
  • The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
    • Derived terms
    * butter icing * water icing

    Etymology 2

    From the verb .

    Verb

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