Food·Posted on 8 Oct 201618 Reasons Why Icing Is Fucking GrossStop ruining perfectly good cakes with unnecessary quantities of gritty sugar butter.by Natalya LobanovaBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. The phrase "icing on the cake" as a term for a nice extra bonus makes no sense to you. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. If anything, it seems like an insult. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 3. Because icing is the grossest part of the cake. 4. It's just so sickly sweet. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 5. And most of the time, it's mostly just food colouring. Anna @TheRaccoon421 The result of eating icing with black food coloring in it. 😂 08:27 PM - 29 May 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 6. Also, buttercream is definitely the worst. Aymi Elisse @Omg_itsAymi Every time I eat cake. I really hate buttercream. 08:59 PM - 05 Apr 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite It's just gritty butter, basically. 7. Consequently your plate looks like this after you've finished a piece of cake. 8. You basically artfully create an F made out of icing. 9. Then, you feel a little guilty about leaving so much food on your plate after you're done. 10. It's not that you don't understand the artistry of icing. Sure, some of it looks incredible. View this photo on Instagram 11. But it never tastes incredible. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 12. Whenever you bake a cake, you wish you could just stop at this stage. 13. Cupcakes are the worst, because they're 50% icing. 14. Most of the time you just scrape it off, though. 15. But muffins are the best, because they're basically cakes minus the awful icing. 16. Even biscuits aren't safe from the wrath of icing. 17. "Naked cakes" is the best trend that has ever happened to cakes. View this photo on Instagram 18. Because cakes are perfect the way they are and shouldn't feel the pressure to cover themselves up with icing. View this photo on Instagram