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Easy French Buttercream Recipe



This creamy, custardy French buttercream made with egg yolks pipes beautifully and is so delicious you’ll be making it over and over! This buttercream uses egg yolks to make a custard-like frosting that’s so good you’ll hardly believe it! The closest thing I might compare it to is custard or pastry cream, but because of the butter, it’s stable and you can use it to pipe with very sharp definition. This easy French buttercream recipe can be doubled or even tripled if you want to make more for a large cake or big batch of cupcakes.

RECIPE: https://preppykitchen.com/how-to-make-french-buttercream/

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21 Comments

  1. @carollovell3457

    Wow, this is very similar to Italian buttercream. Egg yolks instead of egg whites! Otherwise, same process! So true the part where you have to wait til the hot sugar and egg mixture cools before adding butter. Hardest part is the wait but so necessary. If you don't wait, it turns to soup and can be hard to fix.

  2. @dianadambrosio1

    You .. are fantastic John. Long, long time fan of yours. Because you scientifically understand all of the candy stages of why sugar does what it does and how it will affect the buttercream, etc. But you make it approachable , as so many people here have said. I want to make this. And I think that's why you are so successful as you actually cause people to create and bake. ❤

  5. @abyssal_phoenix

    The idea to use it in a tart sounds interesting! I remember having used a kind of cream in a pear tart.
    I used it a a bottom layer and put boiled pears cut in 8s on top.
    I forgot what i used though,

  7. @NW-lv9gb

    I'm definitely gonna try this. I've also just discovered ermine buttercream, which is not so sweet

  10. @ginathomas7813

    Thanks to John, I got it right 1st time. He's taught me so much related to baking.
    My first ever successful cake (with icing) was during lockdown following Preppy Kitchen on YT.

  11. @daughteroftheblackmadonna8936

    My oldest sister was a self taught French pastry chef. When she would have big orders, I would help her. French buttercream was the first thing I learned to do. This brings back memories.❤️

  14. @andreaf5497

    John, I love watching your videos, and I love the way you explain things. You brighten my day. By the way, I also measure vanilla extract with my heart. ❤😂

  16. @cooneywi

    You are very expressive with your hands. Do you ever accidently nick yourself when you are holding a knife and talking?

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