buttercream means A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.
Etymology
From butter + cream.
noun
- 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.”