"buttercream" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-buttercream.wav Forms: buttercreams [plural]
Etymology: From butter + cream. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|butter|cream}} butter + cream Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} buttercream (countable and uncountable, plural buttercreams)
  1. (cooking) A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (type of icing): crema de mantega [feminine] (Catalan), Buttercreme [feminine] (German), uachtar ime [masculine] (Irish), crema al burro [feminine] (Italian), 버터크림 (beoteokeurim) (Korean), крем (krem) [masculine] (Russian), crema de mantequilla [feminine] (Spanish), tereyağlı krema (Turkish)

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