Chocolate buttercream frosting is a sweet and smooth finishing touch for a delicious dessert. This Easy Buttercream Chocolate Frosting can be whipped up in no time and will have you spreading it over cakes, cupcakes, and so much more!
Cocoa Powder Chocolate Frosting
Not sure which type of cocoa powder is best to use for this easy buttercream chocolate frosting? Two of the most common types used for baking are Dutch-process and natural cocoa powder. The difference between these two types of cocoa powder is all in how they are processed.
Dutch-process cocoa powder has cocoa beans that are cleaned in alkaline solution of potassium carbonate to balance out the amount of acid they have. Due to this method of processing, baking powder, not baking soda, is used as a rising agent. This is because this process neutralizes the cocoa beans, it does not react to baking soda.
Buttercream Chocolate Frosting for Cupcakes
What can you use this chocolate buttercream frosting for? There are many different delectable desserts this buttercream chocolate frosting can help to complete. Below is a list of various purposes:
- Gently warm it up and add it to your favourite flavour of ice cream.
- Thin out this buttercream chocolate icing with milk to create a glaze you can use on muffins, brownies, or cookies.
- Cake balls can be made with this homemade buttercream chocolate frosting. Mix it with crumbled cake, chill them for an hour, then roll this mixture into balls for a cool and tasty treat.
- Spread a generous amount onto a cookie and place another cookie on top of the frosting to create yummy cookie sandwiches.
- Add your favourite kind of sprinkles to this buttercream chocolate frosting as a dip for wafer cookies, ice cream cones, waffle sticks, and other crunchy dessert items.
Easy buttercream chocolate frosting
The chocolate frosting texture of this recipe is so smooth and creamy. It’s ideal for icing on any cakes or cupcakes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3 cup powder sugar
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
How to make buttercream chocolate frosting
With a mixer, beat the softened butter on its own until smooth. Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter and mix until it becomes a smooth and thick texture. If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
Easy Buttercream Chocolate Frosting
Equipment
- 1 Mixer
- 1 Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3 cup powder sugar
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- With a mixer, beat the softened butter in a bowl on its own until smooth.
- Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter and mix until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
- If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
Yum-o! I have been known to forego the cake part and just eat a bowl of frosting!
This looks and sounds really yummy – thanks for sharing this recipe with us 🙂
Oh wow. So simple as far as ingredients go – but this looks so smooth and delicious!
This sounds like a great recipe, I like the addition of the cream.
Mmmmm this sounds so yummy and decadence, going to have to make this for my next cake!!
sounds awesome , i will def be trying it out , thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂
Nice,thanks for sharing your recipe.
Love how simple this recipe is! And I love chocolate frosting! Thanks!
Mmm this looks so tasty I could eat it with a spoon!
We think alike!
You had me with heavy cream. mmmnnn
Thanks for the frosting recipe looks good
This frosting looks so yummy and I would love licking the bowl like when I was a kid
We tried this a few months ago and it’s so delicious!
Awesome!