Chocolate Buttercream Christmas Tree Cake

Emma together with I made a Chocolate Buttercream cake for Mike's birthday. Mike is a fan of the classics - chocolate cake, chocolate bit cookies together with brownies - thus for his birthday, nosotros idea a classic chocolate cake amongst homemade buttercream would last perfect.

We've perish fascinated past times Culinary Dots cakes - I've never seen anything quite similar them. She of late made a cake amongst a Christmas Tree inwards the centre that Emma idea would last fun to try. I made the cake together with frosted it amongst the buttercream (recipe below), together with she made the Tree 100% past times herself.

She started amongst an H2O ice cream cone equally the base, thus added light-green buttercream.

While Culinary Dots makes vegan treats... nosotros used a boxed cake mix together with this wonderful Homemade Chocolate Buttercream. I made the cakes inwards these 8" cake pans.

8" x 3" Cake Pans, $8

Chocolate Buttercream

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