The Best Chocolate Buttercream

Mike doesn't similar frosting - isn't that the close annoying affair ever?  He's e'er telling me to entirely seat a piddling fighting on cakes together with cupcakes.  For those of us who convey coveted the "corner" pieces of birthday cakes, this asking is difficult to embrace (or obey).  When I detect an icing or frosting that Mike loves, I know I convey struck gilded - equally I convey amongst this chocolate buttercream.  It is non likewise sweet, non likewise chocolately together with gloriously creamy.

I shared some of my Cake Baking Tips & Resources below, too.
  
The Best Homemade
Chocolate Buttercream



1 stick of butter, melted
1 1/2 cups of cocoa
1/2 loving cup of milk (plus more)
2 sticks of butter, softened
5-6 cups of powdered saccharide (plus peradventure more)
1 teaspoon vanilla

In a drinking glass bowl, melt 1 stick of butter inwards the microwave.  Add cocoa together with milk together with microwave for 1 to a greater extent than minute, stir to mix. 

In a mixer, cream ii sticks of butter together with powdered sugar.  Add cocoa mixture slowly.  Add vanilla.   Mix on high for ii minutes.  Add to a greater extent than milk or powdered saccharide until the desired consistency.

Whip together for a dyad of minutes until good combined.  

Add butter inwards ii tablespoons at a fourth dimension until incorporated.  Whip for 2-3 to a greater extent than minutes.

Add to a greater extent than milk or powdered saccharide to attain desired consistency.





Cake Baking Tips :

I role Parchment Paper to business the Round Cake Pans.   I of late restocked both the White & the Natural Unbleached (shown here).  I role the cake pan to depict a circle, therefore cutting it out.  Then I cutting strips to business the sides of the pan with.  I role a piddling butter to concord it inwards identify - only swipe the stick around the pan ane time to create some glue.

Most of the fourth dimension nosotros only role boxed cake mixes + homemade icing.  Boxed cakes tend to last rattling moist (yay!) together with the icing is what I taste the close (yay!), therefore this combo industrial plant corking for us.

I bake the cakes on a Large Baking Sheet, which makes them easier to brand it together with out of the oven together with helps overstep away on the oven build clean past times catching whatever overflow from the pans.

Shop Baking Essentials :

Parchment Paper (white or natural)
8" or 6" Round Cake Pans
Baking Sheets
Disposable Pastry Bags

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