Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Chocolate buttercream icing

Name: Chocolate buttercream icing
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes enough to ice 12 cupcakes or fill and ice a 20cm cake
Ingredients: 100g salted butter softened and cubed; 150g icing sugar sifted; 25g cocoa powder; 2 tbsp whole milk; 50g dark chocolate melted and cooled

Amanda James

Published: April 28, 2022 at 9:43 AM

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Makes enough to ice 12 cupcakes or fill and ice a 20cm cake

Easy

Total time: 15 mins

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Silky, delicious buttercream gets a chocolate makeover. This simple frosting recipe is perfect for decorating cupcakes or filling sponge cakes

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Top your bakes with this homemade chocolate buttercream, then also check out our basic buttercream, cream cheese frosting, Russian buttercream and how to make a chocolate drip cake.

Recipe tip: Cocoa makes for a child-friendly buttercream, but if you want a more grown-up flavour, add melted dark chocolate as well. When working with melted chocolate, make sure it’s cool and work fast so that the buttercream doesn't start to seize-up.

Ingredients

100g salted butter

softened and cubed
150g icing sugar

sifted
25g cocoa powder
2 tbsp whole milk
50g dark chocolate

melted and cooled

Method

step 1

Beat the soften butter using either a hand mixer or free-standing electric mixer until smooth. Gradually add the icing sugar in 3 separate additions and beat fully between each. Add the cocoa and beat again. Mix in the milk to fully combine. On full speed beat the buttercream for at least 5 minutes until fluffy and smooth. Working fast, beat in the melted chocolate and spread and fill a 20cm cake or fill a large piping bag and pipe over cupcakes.

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Amanda James

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