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BEST Chocolate Buttercream Recipe Tutorial
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Sep 6, 2024
This decadently chocolatey buttercream is easy to make, stores well, and can be used for all sorts of frosting and decorating techniques! For the recipe and typed out version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/best-chocolate-buttercream For my tutorial on 4 Ways To Use Ganache click here: https://youtu.be/vv9XJ9i0vnY For my online cake decorating school click here: https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/courses SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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This buttercream is decadently chocolatey because it's made with two different kinds of chocolate
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melted chocolate and cocoa powder. It's easy to make, stores well and can be used for all
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sorts of frosting and cake decorating techniques. To make this chocolate buttercream start by
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preparing two types of chocolate. First mix a third of a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder with
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a quarter of a cup of hot water and stir it until all of the cocoa powder has dissolved to make a
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thin paste, almost the consistency of melted chocolate. Leave it to cool. Now for the second
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type of chocolate, measure out three quarters of a cup of chocolate chips or weigh out 175 grams or
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six ounces. Melt the chocolate in the microwave at 50% power for one minute and stir it until it's
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smooth. If you use a bar of chocolate before you melt it you should chop it into roughly the same
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sized pieces so they all melt at the same speed. After stirring it, if there are still pieces of
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solid chocolate in it, melt it for another 30 seconds. When it's smooth leave it to cool. The
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recipe for this chocolate buttercream is on britishgirlbakes.com if you want to see it
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written out with the measurements in grams, ounces and cups. Now make a batch of my four minute
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buttercream using five four ounce sticks of butter or 565 grams. Make sure the butter is at room
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temperature and add a 32 ounce bag of powdered sugar, which is the same as about seven cups
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Mix on the lowest speed of your mixer. I like to add the sugar a quarter at a time, mixing for one
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minute before adding the next addition so that it doesn't spray out of the mixer when you turn it on
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Add half a tablespoon of vanilla extract and for plain vanilla buttercream you would add milk or
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cream to thin it out to the right consistency but instead we're going to add the cocoa powder and
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chocolate you prepared earlier. Stir everything together, mixing until it's all the same colour
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and the buttercream should be silky smooth and easily spreadable. If it's too stiff and it pulls
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off the cake when you try to spread it on, add milk or cream a tablespoon at a time until it's
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the right consistency. I have a very detailed tutorial on my four minute buttercream and how
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to check the consistency if you're looking for more tips on that. You can use this chocolate
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buttercream to frost a cake and I'll give you some fun variations on frosting techniques with
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this chocolate buttercream in a moment. This chocolate buttercream also pipes well so you
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can use it with a 1M piping tip to pipe swirls or ruffles onto cakes or cupcakes or mini cakes
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or a round tip for these dollops of buttercream filling on a naked cake or an open star tip like
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a 4B tip for buttercream borders or a petal tip for these flowers. It even works for buttercream
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carving and I have an entire online course on that. Brown buttercream might sound like a boring base
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for cake decorating but you can jazz it up by creating an ombre or watercolour effect. For
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watercolour frosting don't mix the chocolate into the buttercream completely. Mix the cocoa powder
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and water mixture in first to give the frosting a pale brown colour and then pour the melted
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chocolate into the bowl but only stir it a few times to create a marbled look. Spread the frosting
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onto your cake and you'll notice lots of different shades of brown in the frosting. When you scrape
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the cake with a frosting smoother you'll take away the texture on the frosting and when the
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frosting is smooth the watercolour effect will be even more dramatic. If you're enjoying this
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tutorial please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my YouTube channel for a new cake
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decorating tutorial every week! To change the shade of brown of your frosting, play around with the
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amount of chocolate you add to the buttercream. I'm adding a small amount of melted chocolate and
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the cocoa powder and water mixture to this bowl to make a light brown buttercream and then setting
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some of that aside in another bowl before adding more chocolate to this buttercream to make a
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darker shade and then setting some of that aside and adding even more chocolate to this final
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amount of buttercream. You can use these different shades of brown to vary the colours of chocolate
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buttercream filling between cake layers or create a pretty ombre design on a cake. For ombre frosting
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spread the three colours in layers around the sides of the cake so that the colour gets lighter
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or darker as you go up or down the cake. You can smooth the frosting with a frosting smoother or
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add texture with a textured cake comb like this pleated one and the chocolate buttercream makes
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a cake that's beautiful as well as delicious! I store frosted cakes in the fridge until two to
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four hours before serving. To store just the chocolate buttercream, cover the bowl tightly
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with cling film or put the buttercream in an airtight container and leave it at room temperature
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for up to three days or in the fridge for a week or in the freezer for a month. When you're ready
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to use it, take it out a few hours before so that it can get to room temperature and then stir it
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to get rid of any air bubbles. Another option for chocolate frosting is chocolate ganache and I have
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a detailed tutorial on that called 4 Ways to Use Ganache. Thanks for watching this tutorial
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Remember to click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my youtube channel for a new
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