Tausi Insider

Photo : Elena Veselova ( Shutterstock ) It’s a universal law that a lovely loaf or bundt cake must be topped with a simple icing drizzle. Although simplicity doesn’t have to mean flavorless, most powdered sugar icings are, sadly, completely flat. Don’t let this be your cake’s fate. Treat your icing as a flavor opportunity, and don’t squander it with water or milk. Instead, finesse any other tasty beverage in your fridge into a cake icing. At its simplest, a quick icing drizzle is composed of powdered sugar that is dissolved into a smaller amount of water or milk, until the desired consistency is achieved. This combo doesn’t really do your cake any favors; those are arguably the most flavorless liquids a person can find. Besides sweetness (and I’m guessing your cake already has that), the flavor of powdered sugar alone can be overwhelmingly chalky. You can add extract for a boost, but don’t miss the wider range of flavors at your disposal in the fridge. Simply substitute the wate...