Vanilla bean swiss meringue buttercream

Made with five simple ingredients, this silky, smooth, light, buttery and not too sweet Homemade Swiss Meringue Buttercream is the perfect topping for any dessert!

Swiss Meringue Buttercream is the BEST in the world of buttercream! This frosting is light and fluffy, silky smooth and creamy, super stable for decorating cakes and cupcakes.

Light, silky, and vanilla-y Italian buttercream frosting, this recipe is a staple for any avid baker because of its amazing flavor, versatility and how well it tends to hold.

Perfect Swiss Meringue is a silky, glossy, and smooth-textured meringue that pipes and decorates beautifully, and it tastes like the best homemade marshmallow in spreadable form.

A silky, not too sweet buttercream perfect for decorating cakes, frosting cupcakes, filling macarons, and more!

Two Layer Vanilla Bean Buttermilk Cake with Cherry Compote and Vanilla Bean Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The cake is tender from the reverse creaming method, and the Swiss meringue buttercream is smooth and silky.

Faux Swiss meringue buttercream is silky smooth and sweet like traditional Swiss buttercream but is super easy to make. With pasteurized egg whites and powdered sugar, you don't need to worry about heating egg whites or dissolving sugar. Even with shortcuts, the rich, creamy, vanilla flavor isn't compromised!

This Swiss Meringue Buttercream is easy to make, perfectly sweetened and has a light, silky texture. It is the perfect topping for cakes or cupcakes! It’s silky texture makes it the best frosting to achieve that perfectly smooth coating on a layer cake.

This recipe will fill and cover a cake made with (3) 8-inch round cake pans. To fill (and not cover) a cake of the same size, reduce the quantities in half.