buttercream
Sign in to saveAlso known as butter cream, butter icing, mock cream, butter frosting
Buttercream, also referred to as butter icing or butter frosting, is used for either filling, coating or decorating cakes. The main ingredients are butter and some type of sugar.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Buttercream
- Food.image
- Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 280px
- Food.caption
- Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry buttercream
- Food.alternate_name
- Butter Icing
- Food.type
- Icing or filling
- Food.main_ingredient
- Fats (usually butter; sometimes lard or margarine), powdered sugar
- Food.cookbook
- Simple Buttercream
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Varieties
- American buttercream or mock cream
- Meringue-based buttercream
- Swiss meringue buttercream
- Italian meringue buttercream
- Other varieties
- Ermine frosting (flour buttercream)
- French buttercream
- German buttercream
- See also
- References
Buttercream, also referred to as butter icing or butter frosting, is used for either filling, coating or decorating cakes. The main ingredients are butter and some type of sugar.
Buttercream is commonly flavored with vanilla. Other common flavors are chocolate, fruits, and other liquid extracts. Food coloring is commonly added if the buttercream is being used as decoration. Buttercream can be piped or spread in decorative patterns and shapes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “buttercream” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.