buttercream

See also: butter cream

English

Etymology

From butter +‎ cream.

Pronunciation

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Noun

buttercream (countable and uncountable, plural buttercreams)

1. (cooking) A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar.
   • 2009 January 9, Basil Katz, “Gaston Lenôtre, Who Built a Culinary Brand, Is Dead at 88”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He was the first one to use gelatin in his buttercreams, and to make such extensive use of the freezer.

Translations

type of icing

• Catalan: crema de mantega f
• German: Buttercreme (de) f
• Irish: uachtar ime m
• Italian: crema al burro f
• Korean: 버터크림 (beoteokeurim)
• Russian: крем (ru) m (krem)
• Spanish: crema de mantequilla f
• Turkish: tereyağlı krema

See also

• buttercream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia