Buttercream Buttercream Buttercream is a type of icing or filling used either inside cakes, as a coating, or as decoration. Simple buttercream is made by creaming together fats (butter, margarine, or vegetable oil shortening) and powdered sugar to the desired consistency and lightness. Typically twice as much sugar as butter by weight is used. Flavorings, in the form of extracts and oils, may also be added. Some recipes call for cream, non-fat milk solids, flour, or meringue powder. There are two types of meringue-based buttercream: Italian and Swiss. The meringues must be cooled to room temperature in order not to melt
Foam latex has also seen heavy use in the field of stop motion animation, being used to form the skin and muscles of many puppets. The characters in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Coraline" were made partially of foam latex. It is also used in place of clay in productions such as "Celebrity Deathmatch" in which the various celebrities who appear to be made of clay are in fact foam latex over wire armature. Artists such as Lordi and GWAR wear costumes that include this material. Latex foam is also widespread in the manufacture of modern soccer goalkeeper gloves. The material has