diff --git a/snippets/btoa.md b/snippets/btoa.md
index d24508e50..6c4d4531f 100644
--- a/snippets/btoa.md
+++ b/snippets/btoa.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Creates a base-64 encoded ASCII string from a String object in which each charac
 Create a `Buffer` for the given string with binary encoding and use `Buffer.toString('base64')` to return the encoded string.
 
 ```js
-const btoa = str => new Buffer.from(str, 'binary').toString('base64');
+const btoa = str => Buffer.from(str, 'binary').toString('base64');
 ```
 
 ```js
diff --git a/test/btoa/btoa.js b/test/btoa/btoa.js
index bdff3b689..7d2ae5545 100644
--- a/test/btoa/btoa.js
+++ b/test/btoa/btoa.js
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-const btoa = str => new Buffer.from(str, 'binary').toString('base64');
+const btoa = str => Buffer.from(str, 'binary').toString('base64');
 module.exports = btoa;