buttercream
A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter with powdered sugarA type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar.
» He carefully layered the cake with buttercream.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar.
Buttercreme
кремkrem
Examples
3 sentencesHe carefully layered the cake with buttercream.
Can you frost the cake with buttercream icing?
The pastry chef is decorating a cake with green owls made of buttercream frosting.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From butter + cream.From butter + cream.
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Forms
plural: buttercreams| Singular | buttercream |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.