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Multilayered Frosting (also known as an Icing Square, Icing or Meringue) is one of the blockers in Candy Crush Saga. It's the main blocker and the most abundant blocker a player will come across whilst playing the game. As the game progresses, the frosting gathers more and more layers; therefore, it makes the game harder.
Appearances[]
First appearance | Latest appearance |
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Level 2 | Level 14419 |
For the list of levels with this blocker, see here.
Properties[]
Multilayered frosting occupies one square and is stuck until cleared. It can be broken by making matches adjacent to it, or through any special candy's effects reaching the blocker. This procedure needs to be repeated as many times as the number of layers. Colour bombs can't destroy it unless a candy (or candies) next to it is destroyed by the colour bomb. Jelly might be underneath a multilayered frosting, requiring the player to first clear it before reaching the jelly.
Types of Frosting[]
As the game progresses, the frosting blocker gets a little more sophisticated. The number of times a candy is needed to be broken next to it increases. When a match is made next to a frosting, it changes in appearance representing the number of layers left. All multilayered frosting blockers are in sachets. Here is a list of the types of the frosting blocker:
- One-layered frosting (also called sachets) - A raw blocker in Candy Crush Saga; it can be made by breaking through the frosting, taking only one hit to clear it. They are introduced in level 2 on the 1st episode, Candy Town.
- Two-layered frosting - Introduced in level 51 in the 5th episode, Minty Meadow. This frosting takes two hits to destroy. When the blocker is hit the first time, the player sees an empty sachet.
- Three-layered frosting - Introduced in level 81 in the 7th episode, Bubblegum Bridge. This frosting takes three hits to destroy. It features a frosting with a brown centre.
- Four-layered frosting - Unofficially introduced in level 104 in the 8th episode, Salty Canyon, due to redesigning. This frosting takes four hits to destroy. It features a frosting with a brown spot. This brown spot has a smaller white spot in the centre. They officially appear in level 126 in the 10th episode, Wafer Wharf.
- Five-layered frosting - Introduced in level 156 in the 12th episode, Pastille Pyramid. It features a frosting with brown and white spots, but the top white spot has a brown spot in the centre. This blocker takes five hits, and can be a real nuisance. This frosting currently has the most layers and is one of the blockers which takes the second most hits, falling behind from a cake bomb, which takes eight hits.
Notable Levels[]
- Level 2 - First appearance of one-layered frosting and the first time where frosting layers are required as an order.
- Level 9 - First jelly level with multilayered frosting.
- Level 10 - First hexagon level and first two-digit level with frosting.
- Level 14 - First level with multilayered frosting inside marmalade (specifically, one-layered frosting in marmalade).
- Level 18 - First ingredients level with frosting.
- Level 23 - First level with multilayered frosting inside liquorice locks (specifically, one-layered frosting in liquorice locks).
- Level 43 - First nightmarishly hard level with multilayered frosting.
- Level 51 - First appearance of two-layered frosting. Also the first level with two-layered frosting in marmalade.
- Level 52 - First level with two-layered frosting in liquorice locks.
- Level 81 - First appearance of three-layered frosting.
- Level 88 - First level with three-layered frosting in marmalade and liquorice locks.
- Level 100 - First three-digit level with frosting.
- Level 104 - Unofficial first appearance of four-layered frosting due to redesigning.
- Level 126 - Official first appearance of four-layered frosting.
- Level 144 - First level with four-layered frosting in liquorice locks.
- Level 156 - First appearance of five-layered frosting.
- Level 158 - First level with five-layered frosting in marmalade and liquorice locks. Also the first level with all five frosting layers on the level's board.
- Level 159 - First level with four-layered frosting in marmalade.
- Level 216 - First mixed mode level with multilayered frosting (and the first mixed mode level overall).
- Level 225 - First legendary level with multilayered frosting.
- Level 311 - First level with multilayered frosting on a conveyor belt (specifically, five-layered frosting in marmalade on a conveyor belt).
- Level 319 - First level with three-layered frosting on a conveyor belt.
- Level 324 - First level with five-layered frosting in liquorice locks on a conveyor belt.
- Level 329 - First level with two-layered and four-layered frosting on a conveyor belt. Also the first level with five-layered frosting on a conveyor belt without being in marmalade or liquorice locks.
- Level 404 - First level with one-layered frosting on a conveyor belt.
- Level 504 - First level with multilayered frosting in sugar chests (specifically, three-layered frosting in three-layered sugar chests).
- Level 507 - First level with one- and five-layered frosting in sugar chests of one to four layers.
- Level 530 - First level with four-layered frosting in sugar chests of all five layers.
- Level 532 - First level with two-layered frosting in one-layered sugar chests, three-layered frosting in five-layered sugar chests, and five-layered frosting in five-layered sugar chests.
- Level 569 - First level with one-layered frosting in five-layered sugar chests.
- Level 595 - First level with three-layered frosting in four-layered sugar chests.
- Level 1000 - First four-digit level with multilayered frosting.
- Level 1327 - First level where one-layered frosting can be spawned by magic mixers.
- Level 1330 - First level where two-layered frosting can be spawned by magic mixers.
- Level 1362 - First level where three-layered frosting can be spawned by magic mixers.
- Level 1494 - First level where five-layered frosting can be spawned by magic mixers.
- Level 3357 - Unofficial first level with multilayered frosting in crystal candies (specifically, three-layered frosting inside three-layered crystal candies) due to redesigning.
- Level 4275 - First level where four-layered frosting can be spawned by magic mixers.
- Level 4603 - Official first level with multilayered frosting in crystal candies (specifically, three-layered frosting inside one-layered crystal candies and four-layered frosting inside two-layered crystal candies).
- Level 4608 - First level with one-layered frosting in one-layered crystal candies.
- Level 4665 - First level with five-layered frosting in two- and three-layered crystal candies.
- Level 4694 - First level with five-layered frosting in one-layered crystal candies.
- Level 7116 - First rainbow rapids level with multilayered frosting (and the first rainbow rapids level overall).
- Level 7896 - First level where multilayered frosting is required to unlock order locks (and the first one with order locks overall).
- Level 10001 - First five-digit level with multilayered frosting.
- Level 10461 - First level with multilayered frosting in a cobra basket (specifically, five-layered frosting in a cobra basket). Also the first level with cobra baskets and candy cobras overall.
Trivia[]
- This is the first ever blocker introduced in Candy Crush Saga.
- It was speculated that King would allow frosting to have more than 5 layers, but this is improbable as King has not added more layers of frosting since it's release many years ago.
- When destroyed, it released a sound similar to the sound when liquorice and candy bombs are destroyed on the HTML5 version. In more recent versions, it releases a sound similar to the sound when chocolate is removed. With the release of Sticky Savannah on mobile, the sound is updated to make the multi-layered frosting emit a "wrap" sound. Prior to Sticky Savannah, a much more different sound would play, a more electric-shocking-like sound.
- The release of a six-layered frosting is now virtually impossible: the game has over 15000 levels and the fifth layer was introduced over a decade ago, the fifth layer completely fills up the curls in the frosting, there has never been a singular blocker that takes exactly 6 hits to destroy, and new blockers ceased to be introduced after the Wonderful Wrapper in 2022.
- There are two variants of the artwork of the particles released when multilayered frosting is destroyed. The first variant is the PC version, where the particles match the destroyed frostings' colour and appear to be solid chunks. The second variant is mobile versions, where the particles are just solid coloured white circles.
- You can still tell if there are jellies hiding under the sachets since the sachet texture doesn't take up a whole tile, though only on mobile versions; on PC versions, the sachet covers the tile fully, but still leaves tiny curls in the periphery; thus with a good eye, one can judge if jelly is hidden behind the frostings.
- If there is a double jelly underneath a locked five-layered frosting in a 3-layered crystal candy, it will take 11 hits to rid that one square of its jelly unless a jelly fish is used.
- All five multilayered frostings could come out of mystery candies (before those were removed), even in levels before 276, when the five-layered frosting was officially released upon its release.
- Level 5896 currently has the largest amount of frosting layer orders, with 245.
- Before the nerf, level 2393 used to also require more than 200 frosting layers.
- Frosting in a sachet has a totally different texture to frosting out of a sachet.
- This blocker is often mistaken for cream or a cupcake.
- In Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Jelly Saga, there is a similar series of blockers, named cupcake, which act exactly the same.
- Many get confused by the name between "frosting" and "meringue", given the fact that meringue features swirls, just like frosting.
- There are two blockers in the game that resembles frostings: marmalade and chocolate.
- A layer of these blockers can be removed if a candy next to it is cleared by a colour bomb. This cannot happen on the frosting. This property is the only difference between an empty slot and a frosting, which means frosting is more hated than empty slots.
- In the artwork, the mobile design for Multi-layered frosting is more desaturated and contains less gloss than the original.
- The official name of the Candy Crush Saga fan page is "Icing squares" or "Icing layers". For a long time, they were referred to as such. When they were given a graphic overhaul, they are now referred to as frosting.
- Started from 1.176, the regular icing is removed. Regular icings are replaced by one-layered frosting.
- Multilayered frosting makes up the numbers 007, 019 to 023 in the tilemap code.
- One-layered frosting:
007
&019
- Two-layered frosting:
020
- Three-layered frosting:
021
- Four-layered frosting:
022
- Five-layered frosting:
023
- One-layered frosting:
- Frosting has the order number "17". The icon for frosting order is a five-layered frosting.
- Frosting order is required to unlock order locks from Level 7896.
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