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butter cream

butter cream is the alternative form of buttercream.

Meaning of buttercream

Noun

buttercream (countable and uncountable, plural buttercreams)

  1. A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar.
    • He was the first one to use gelatin in his buttercreams, and to make such extensive use of the freezer.2009 January 9, Basil Katz, “Gaston Lenôtre, Who Built a Culinary Brand, Is Dead at 88”, in New York Times

Forms of butter cream

pluralbutter creams

Questions about butter cream

What is butter cream the alternative form of?
Butter cream is the alternative form of buttercream.

Words near butter cream in the dictionary

  1. butter cake
  2. butter cakes
  3. butter chicken
  4. butter clam
  5. butter clams
  6. butter cream
  7. butter creams
  8. butter curler
  9. butter curlers
  10. butter dish
  11. butter dishes

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