the episode is considered the weakest of the series. in a review of the episode, entertainment weekly's tanner stransky notes, "you'd think an episode titled "icing on the cake" would be sweet and totally betty-licious. coated in wonderful betty one-liners. whipped up with delicate betty care. and smoothed over with a perfect betty glaze. just the way fans ordered it. but that's not how our dessert was served up tonight. there was something actually ugly — okay, maybe just unattractive — about this episode of betty, don't you think, tv watchers?"