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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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