1769 E. Raffald xi. 244 To make Sugar Iceing for the Bride Cake.
1930 E. Waugh vii. 180 Gaudi has again introduced his ‘sugar-icing’ motive, translating it from tile and mosaic into carved stone.
1979 ‘M. Hebden’ xii. 123 The pink shirt had suddenly become sugar icing-coloured and hideously wrong.