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Ingredient

Buttercream

Also called butter cream, butter icing, mock cream and butter frosting

Buttercream is made with butter and sugar, sometimes with vanilla, chocolate, fruit, or egg yolk. Cooks use it as a garnish.

  • Dairy
  • May contain egg
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
Europe, Asia
Top country
Austria
Buttercream, in dish

Photo: [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use buttercream

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish

Made from

Preparing it

For American buttercream, cream butter with powdered sugar until it is light and has the desired consistency. For meringue buttercream, cool the meringue before beating in the butter so it does not melt.

Around the world

Where buttercream is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use buttercream. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list buttercream among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with buttercream

2 of the 3 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Lapis talas Bogor

    Indonesia

  • Napoleon cake

    France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include buttercream.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: buttercream in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milkSometimes eggs (only when the optional ingredient is used)
Animal origin
From: dairySometimes egg (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Around the world

What buttercream is called

Names in 34 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Crema de mantequilla · Mantequilla batida · Crema de manteca

  • French

    crème au beurre

  • Italian

    crema al burro

  • German

    Buttercreme · Buttercrème

  • Dutch

    botercrème

  • Greek

    Κρέμα βουτύρου

  • Turkish

    Tereyağlı krema

  • Russian

    масляный крем

  • Polish

    krem maślany

  • Arabic

    كريمة الزبدة البسيطة

  • Persian

    کرم کره

  • Hebrew

    קרם חמאה

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  • Armenian

    Քաղցր խյուս

  • Basque

    gurin krema

  • Belarusian

    крэм

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    крэм

  • Catalan

    nata de mantega · crema de mantega

  • Chinese

    奶油乳酪 · 黄油乳脂

  • Czech

    máslový krém

  • Esperanto

    buterkremo

  • Finnish

    kreemi

  • Hungarian

    vajkrém

  • Icelandic

    Smjörkrem

  • Indonesian

    krim mentega

  • Japanese

    バタークリーム

  • Javanese

    Krim mértega

  • Kazakh

    Крем · Сары май кремі

  • Korean

    버터크림

  • Luxembourgish

    Bottercrème

  • Norwegian

    smørkrem

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    smørkrem

  • Simplified Chinese

    黄油乳脂

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    黄油乳脂

  • Slovenian

    maslena krema · kremno maslo

  • Swedish

    smörkräm

  • Traditional Chinese

    黃油乳脂

  • Ukrainian

    крем

  • Vietnamese

    Kem bơ

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1429013

Photos

Photo: [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons