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

Her sister-in-law made the couple’s cake, a buttercream amaretto cake with strawberry rhubarb filling, and even used flowers from the garden to decorate it. — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2026

Both of us gravitated toward the dot cake, vanilla cake and buttercream, entirely obscured by a psychedelic layer of rainbow sprinkles, an online phenomenon neither of us had tried. — Tanya Bush, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026

To frost the cake, dollop the buttercream onto the center of the cooled cake and use a spoon or an offset spatula to spread the buttercream across the top of the cake. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

The turquoise cake that Swift carried on stage was funfetti with salty vanilla buttercream, while the second cake was a gluten-free vanilla cake topped with marshmallow meringue frosting. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026

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