When you’re baking a batch of chocolate cupcakes or a cake, there’s nothing like homemade chocolate buttercream to decorate your baked treats. With its silky texture and incredibly rich chocolate flavor , adding moist but thick chocolate buttercream as a dessert topper will take your baking to the next level.
This is a simple and basic recipe that every home baker should have in their pocket. Making chocolate buttercream will only take a few minutes and you can store it in the refrigerator ahead of time and take it out when it’s time to decorate your desserts. You can even customize it depending on how you want to use it!
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
To make the best chocolate spread at home, you will need butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, heavy whipping cream, and a pinch of salt.
The cocoa powder will give the buttercream its chocolate flavor while the whipped cream will give it a light, fluffy texture.
The salt balances the sweetness.
You can even use salted butter for the same purpose. However, whether you use salted butter or not, make sure it has softened at room temperature.
How to Make Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Continued on the next page
