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buttercream

buttercream

9 2.4
A sweet creamy icing made from butter and sugar for decorating cakes and pastries
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌtərˌkrim/
translation icon : crema de mantequilla
  • The baker decorated the cake with smooth, fluffy buttercream icing.
  • buttercream frosting
  • chocolate buttercream
  • vanilla buttercream

And there's one guy and he's just like, your buttercream is loose or something.

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Examples

  • I'm going to be baking a three-layer vanilla cake with white chocolate buttercream frosting in just a bit.

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  • I only used buttercream for the icing, though, and they still tasted really good!

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  • Tonight, we made buttercream sugar cookies from scratch.

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  • I think the cookie dough buttercream was my favorite part.

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  • I've never made brown sugar buttercream before, amazing!

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  • I made a normal white buttercream frosting and will be serving it tomorrow at work.

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  • If you stabilize with gelatin, you can pipe and freeze just like with buttercream.

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  • For the green frosting, I halved the buttercream recipe and used green food coloring instead.

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  • After it was baked, she had filled it with delicious buttercream and sweet raspberry jam, then topped it off with snowy white icing.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • For the cake, a construction of Amaretto-soaked sponge, meringue, shredded coconut, and buttercream frosting.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

ice
vsbuttercream
117 1.0

A sweet soft topping spread over cakes to decorate them

focuses on being buttery and smooth rather than mainly sugar based
frosting
vsbuttercream
  • US
49 1.0

A sweet spread people put on cakes to cover and decorate them

is made specifically from butter and sugar with a creamy texture
icing
vsbuttercream
46 1.0

A sweet thick spread used to coat and decorate cakes

emphasizes inclusion of butter and a richer creamier consistency

How Rich

ganache
  • Specialized
6 6.3
buttercream
9 2.4
icing
46 1.0

Surface Forms

buttercream singular
buttercreams plural

Morphology

buttercream = butter + cream (transparent) = butter + cream

A straightforward compound of 'butter' + 'cream' referring to a sweet icing made from butter and sugar.

Etymology

Buttercream comes from the simple mix of butter and cream used to make a sweet, smooth icing for cakes, so the name tells you it is a 'creamy topping'.