Buttercream the butter (which has a variable melting point below ) as it is subsequently beaten in. French buttercream (also known as pâte à bombe-based buttercream or common buttercream) is made with whipped egg yolks. Custard-based buttercream is prepared by beating together pastry cream and softened butter, and may be additionally sweetened with extra confectioners' sugar. 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
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