Dancing wedding cake

How do you frost a wedding cake with merengue? We’ll have to ask the Yahoo! Style writer:

Do you think she confused merengue (which is a spicy Latin American dance) with meringue (which is whipped egg whites)?

That word’s a lemon

No dancing around this word choice on Yahoo! Travel — it’s a lemon:

The fluffy egg whites on top of a lemon pie is a meringue. A merengue is a spicy Latin American dance.

The icing on the cake: It’s not meringue!

Some errors I see as I wander around the Web leave me dejected. Others make me wince. And a few actually make me laugh. It’s rare that a single page on the Web can elicit all three responses from me. But a blog post from Yahoo! Shine has accomplished just that.

No sooner had I  begun reading than I encountered this mistreatment of a common idiom:

I winced when I read that, but felt completely dejected when I compared these instructions to the actual ones from Sunset magazine:

You see, the real recipe calls for 10 ounces of butter and baking powder—which is like baking soda, only different.

I winced when I noticed the missing word here:

and the typo and extra word here:

But I nearly spit out my Nescafé when I read about the dancing frosting:

It was the icing on the cake.