Typical frosting spatula

A frosting spatula is a kitchen utensil designed especially for the use of spreading a substance onto a flat surface, such as frosting on a cake. Icing, also called frosting, is a Sweet glaze made of Sugar that often also contains Butter, Water, Egg whites Cake is a form of Food that is usually sweet and often baked. It is also an ideal tool for applying spreads onto sandwiches in mass quantities.

A frosting spatula is sometimes referred to as a "palette knife" (particularly by those outside of the U. A palette knife is a blunt Knife with an extremely flexible Steel blade and no sharpened cutting edge S. where the term 'frosting' is never used), but the two are slightly different tools.

The English TV cook Delia Smith actually refers to the joys of owning a "palette knife with a serrated edge", such that it provides ease of slicing cake as well as the spreading of icing (frosting) upon them. Delia Smith OBE (born 18 June, 1941) is an English Cook and Television presenter, known for her interest in teaching

The traditionally accepted British source "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" however refers only to the use of a "broad knife" for laying on icing (frosting). Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was edited by Isabella Beeton and was first published as a book in 1861 by S

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