{"id":3053,"slug":"simple-buttercream","title":"Simple Buttercream","description":"Simple buttercream (sometimes called American buttercream, mock cream, or butter icing) is a type of icing or frosting used inside cakes, as a coating, and as decoration.","ingredients_raw":["200 g (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened","5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract","450 g (4 cups) sifted powdered sugar","30 ml (2 tbsp) milk"],"ingredients_norm":["unsalted butter","vanilla extract","powdered sugar","milk"],"steps":["Cream together butter and vanilla using a mixer.","Beat in powdered sugar one cup at a time, scraping sides and bottom of bowl regularly. Mixture will be very dry.","When all the sugar is incorporated, add milk and beat until incorporated."],"categories":["Frosting and icing recipes","Dessert recipes","Medium expensive recipes","Gluten-free recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes for buttercream","Recipes using powdered sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":5,"servings":null,"yield_text":"Enough for an 8-inch round 2-layer cake","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Simple_Buttercream","source_ref":"4517708","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Simple_Buttercream&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"fea26350da7d7e40cccc5b1f7edcd48ba856981e7a4a063b48bf9b4e22fe695c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:21Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:21Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/simple-buttercream"}