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" Ahh, buttercream. The name alone makes you want to just grab a spoon. Buttercream frosting may be a simple, basic frosting, but it&amp;#039;s incredibly versatile and always delicious.  So, how do you make perfect buttercream every time? It&amp;#039;s simple! 1. Soften 8 tablespoons of butter to room temperature. 2. Place butter, 4 cups powdered sugar and 4 tablespoons of cream or milk into a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Starting on low speed, blend together, speeding up as the frosting comes together. 3. Add up to 2 more tablespoons of cream or milk as needed to get the right consistency. (6 tablespoons total of cream or milk is almost always the perfect amount!) 4. If you want your buttercream to stay perfectly white, leave out the vanilla. But if you don&amp;#039;t care about the color, 1 teaspoon of vanilla may also be added. Now that you have a delicious batch of buttercream frosting, it&amp;#039;s time to eat it! While a sugar cookie is the obvious thing to spread buttercream on, there are tons of other ways to use your creamy, buttery frosting! Here are 15 fabulous recipes that either use buttercream or make it even more delicious than it already is!  1. Limoncello Cupcakes   Limoncello cupcakes with limoncello-spiked buttercream. Meet your new favorite dessert.  Make Limoncello Cupcakes Yourself from Cooking on the Front Burner   2. Chocolate Sandwich Cookies   These amazing little chocolate cookies get sandwiched with cream cheese buttercream for pure cookie perfection.  Make Chocolate Sandwich Cookies Yourself from This Week for Dinner   3. Prosecco Cupcakes with Prosecco Buttercream   There&amp;#039;s Prosecco in the cupcakes, there&amp;#039;s Prosecco in the buttercream. Basically you can&amp;#039;t go wrong with this sparkling recipe!  Make Prosecco Cupcakes Yourself from Kailley&amp;#039;s Kitchen   4. Fudgy Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies   There is just something about a brownie covered in buttercream frosting, especially when that frosting is all minty-like.  Make Fudgy Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies Yourself from Dinners, Dishes &amp;amp;amp; Desserts   5. Chocolate M&amp;amp;amp;M Frosting   Add a little cocoa and crushed M&amp;amp;amp;Ms to your buttercream and you end up with this amazingly rich, can&amp;#039;t-control-yourself frosting.  Make Chocolate M&amp;amp;amp;M Frosting Yourself from This Week for Dinner   6. Mint Chocolate Chip Frosting Cones   You know you just want to eat the frosting. This dessert knows you just want to eat the frosting. Go ahead, just eat the frosting.  Make Mint Chocolate Chip Frosting Cones Yourself from Love from the Oven   7. Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Buttercream   This chocolate hazelnut buttercream is basically Nutella, only better. Put it on banana cupcakes? Heaven.  Make Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Buttercream Yourself from Foodologie   8. Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes   These lemon cupcakes are topped with blueberry frosting that is not only gorgeous but delicious, too.  Make Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes Yourself from Inside BruCrew Life   9. Hot Chocolate Macarons with Marshmallow Buttercream   Feeling French? Make some chocolate macarons and stuff them with marshmallow buttercream. Okay, the marshmallow buttercream isn&amp;#039;t super French, but who cares? It&amp;#039;s marshmallow buttercream. Le sigh.  Make Hot Chocolate Macarons Yourself from Tried and Tasty   10. Watermelon Cake Mix Cookie Sandwiches   These cookies might be the cutest buttercream has ever been. Make Watermelon Cake Mix Cookie Sandwiches Yourself from Taste and Tell   11. Oatmeal Cream Pies   Move over Little Debbie. You&amp;#039;ve got oatmeal cream pie competition and the rum-raisin brown sugar buttercream is totally going to win.  Make Oatmeal Cream Pies Yourself from An Edible Mosaic   12. Chocolate Champagne Frosting   Chocolate + Champagne + Buttercream = Total Awesome   Make Chocolate Champagne Frosting Yourself from Frosting and a Smile   13. Bourbon Cupcakes   These bourbon-spiked cupcakes are made even more amazing topped with maple buttercream. And bacon. And more flavor than you&amp;#039;ll know what to do with. Make Bourbon Cupcakes Yourself from Wonky Wonderful   14. Death by Chocolate Cake Roll   This cake is definitely the way you want to go.  Make Death by Chocolate Cake Roll Yourself from Will Cook for Smiles   15. Chocolate Oatmeal Cream Pies     These tasty little cookies get sandwiched together with vanilla bean buttercream. Vanilla bean makes everything better.  Make Chocolate Oatmeal Cream Pies Yourself from Kitchen Treaty   Jane Maynard is a food blogger at This Week for Dinner and Babble, a writer and designer, and a lover of all things chocolate.   Follow Jane on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook.   This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com.   RELATED:15 Crazy New Twists on Pretzels20 Desserts You Can Make in Less Than 30 MinutesMeals You Can Make in Less Than 20 Minutes  Photo credit: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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