If his wife had put anything on the cake it would be long gone by now.

But it was the words on the cake that took her breath away.

You'll have to tell us your name so we can put it on the cake.

He couldn't have icing on the cake all the time.

Turn over carefully and place, cut side down, on the cake drum.

You may buy a cup of coffee one day, but then spend $100 on cakes and cookies for a party the next.

That will be the icing on the cake, so to speak.

But the icing on the cake was that I knew him!

But all of that was really only the icing on the cake.

The experience is, so to speak, the frosting on the cake.