Icing vs Buttercream - What's the difference?
icing | buttercream |
A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
(ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
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(cooking) A type of icing made by creaming a fat such as butter with powdered sugar
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As nouns the difference between icing and buttercream
is that icing is a sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting while buttercream is (cooking) a type of icing made by creaming a fat such as butter with powdered sugar.As a verb icing
is .icing
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Etymology 1
Gerund of the verb . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* butter icing * water icingEtymology 2
From the verb .Verb
(head)buttercream
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Noun
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