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Buttercream
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Buttercream

Soft, room-temperature butter whipped on its own until fluffy and pale, then powdered sugar in a few additions and a little milk or cream with vanilla: a smooth, stable cream between the cake layers and on top.

⏱ 1 min
🧀 Dairy🥬 Vegetarian🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Whip the soft butter on its own, until fluffy and pale.
    ⚙ WhippingBowlHand mixerorStand mixerorWhisk
    💡Room-temperature butter whips into a smooth cream: cold butter stays lumpy, and melted butter won't hold the air.
  2. 2
    Add the powdered sugar in two or three additions, then the milk and vanilla, and keep whipping until the cream is smooth.
    Hand mixerorStand mixer
599calories
1 gprotein
60 gcarbs
41 gfat
● protein 0%● carbs 40%● fat 60%

Per serving (119 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2)

  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Hand mixer or Stand mixer · one of them

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Milk · Heavy cream · Vanilla · Strong coffee · Cocoa · Lemon juice · Grated lemon zest · Melted dark chocolate

⇄ Alternative recipes

Cream cheese frosting · Powdered Sugar Glaze · Fruit Topping · Caramel Sauce · Cooked Cocoa Glaze · Chocolate Cream Glaze

🔗 Used in

Chocolate Tart · Moist Chocolate Cake · No-Bake Cheesecake · One-bowl oil cake · Baked Cheesecake · Butter Cookies · Melted chocolate cake · Muffins · Yeast Swirls · Creamed butter cake · Biscuit Cake · Layered Honey Cake (Medovik) and 2

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