# Swiss meringue buttercream recipe

A buttercream recipe update that pipes like a dream and tastes just like ice cream.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 10 large egg whites
- 5 sticks unsalted butter
- 2.5 cups sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla

## Instructions

1. Take the butter out and let it sit for a bit while doing everything else
2. Separate the egg whites and yolks because you don't want any yolks into the whites
3. Clean up after yourself because nobody likes salmonella
4. Go in with sugar
5. Follow that with salt
6. Whisk it up together
7. Over medium heat, simmer some water in a pot and create a double boil method
8. Cook these egg whites for five to seven minutes
9. Whisk your egg whites until they are completely cool
10. Going with vanilla and all your butter one stick at a time
11. After five to ten minutes you're gonna have fluffy dreamy buttercream
12. If you want to smooth out those air bubbles, you can switch to the paddle attachment and incorporate all of that in there

## Tips

- Swiss meringue buttercream is a more involved buttercream
- Don't let the water touch the bowl when cooking
- Once you start adding the butter, it will look strange for 5 minutes, but trust the process

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MM9Lcn/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/392c26d4-cdea-4007-a153-d2552646b849
- Extracted: 2025-05-28

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