buttercream

noun

but·​ter·​cream ˈbə-tər-ˌkrēm 

: a sweet butter-based mixture used especially as a filling or frosting

Examples of buttercream in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The cake was two tiers of white buttercream decorated with greenery and florals to match the green color scheme. —Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025

Get your baker friend a full-sized one for smoothing buttercream over cakes, and a mini one for more precise tasks. —Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025

They're supersized, ultra-soft and fluffy, and topped with a luscious almond buttercream frosting. —Lizzy Briskin, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025

The cake is meant to taste like a raspberry sponge soaked in raspberry and basil syrup with mango and passion-fruit ganache in between the layers and covered in buttercream and something that is either actual moss or just looks like moss but tastes like something else. —Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for buttercream

• academe
• cherubim
• elohim
• episteme
• seraphim
• abeam
• airstream
• bloodstream
• daydream
• downstream
• esteem
• extreme