buttercream

[ buht-er-kreem ]

noun

1. a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
2. a similar mixture used as a filling for bonbons or to flavor ice cream.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buttercream¹

First recorded in 1950–55; butter + cream

Example Sentences

Other new menu items include Starbuck’s Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam, a blend of gingerbread flavors with vanilla sweet cream; Turkey Sage Danish, a savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and bechamel sauce; Dark Toffee Bundt, a personal-sized, toffee-flavored Bundt cake; Penguin Cookie, a shortbread cookie iced with a penguin design; and Snowman Cake Pop, a vanilla-flavored cake mixed with buttercream and dipped in a white chocolate icing.

From Salon

The doughnut features an Original Glazed base topped with piped pink buttercream, sparkly pink sugar and edible Barbie sunglasses.

From Salon

According to Food & Wine, Duncan Hines and Parton first collaborated in 2022 with the release of “Dolly’s Southern Favorites” line, which included a Southern-style coconut flavored cake mix, a banana-flavored cake mix, a creamy buttercream frosting and a rich chocolate frosting.

From Salon

Today, that plant is one of thousands on the grounds, a place where monarch ferns frill around the auburn necks of melinonii philodendrons and buttercream and magenta orchids hang like pendants from a jabuticabeira, its spreading copper limbs blistered with purple fruit.

From New York Times

And doughnuts that capture the sun’s disappearing act with the help of buttercream frosting.

From Seattle Times