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Buttercream Calculator

Enter the cups of frosting you need to get exact buttercream ingredient amounts.

How to use

  1. Enter your values in the fields above.
  2. Press Calculate to see your result instantly.
  3. Use the Share button to copy a link to your result.

About this calculator

American buttercream is built on a simple ratio: roughly 1 part butter to 4 parts powdered (icing) sugar, loosened with a splash of milk or cream, which together make a stiff, pipeable frosting rather than the cooked meringue-based buttercreams like Swiss or Italian.

Because recipes are usually written for a fixed batch, home bakers and professional cake decorators constantly have to scale amounts up or down to match how many cups of frosting a particular cake or cupcake batch actually needs. This calculator does that scaling for you, converting your target cup count directly into the butter, powdered sugar, and milk quantities to buy and measure.

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