What's Your Favourite Buttercream

kah22

Wikipedia has THIS to say

Buttercream (also known as butter cream, butter icing, and mock cream) is a type of icing or filling used inside cakes, as a coating, and as decoration. In its simplest form, it is made by creaming butter with powdered sugar, although other fats can be used, such as margarine or lard. Colorings and flavorings are often added, such as chocolate, fruit purees, and various extracts. Buttercream is a common topping for cupcakes, sponge cakes, butter cakes, and other desserts.

Serious Eats list six

American buttercream
Flour buttercream, also known as flour icing/frosting or ermine frosting
French buttercream
German buttercream, also known as custard buttercream or custard icing
Italian buttercream
Swiss buttercream

I have always assumed that the buttercream I've made up until recently was British Buttercream but since I started experimenting with the various ones it just seems that Simple/British/American are all the same especially when you look at the others. But who cares anyway

My favourite at the moment is Italian

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krlyr

I looove Italian - it's like eating molten marshmallows!

honeythewitch

I had no idea i knew so little about buttercream.

bouicca21

If American buttercream is that sickly gunk they pile on cupcakes, I hate it. I tend to add a bit of lemon juice rather than milk.