1. icing on the cake - Noun
2. icing on the cake - Phrase
icing on the cake
(idiomatic) Something that intensifies the appreciation of something already good.
We went out for dinner and dancing and the icing on the cake was when my boyfriend proposed to me as we danced.
We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. Meg Whitman
I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake. Jimmy Carr
I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake. Emeril Lagasse
If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake. Jeff Conaway
I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do. Michael Rooker
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake. Gale Anne Hurd