Delicious Chocolate Buttercream Recipe
Ingredients: 250g Salted Butter/ 250g (2 cups) Powdered Sugar/ 125ml (1/2 cup) Heavy Cream (Thickened Cream)/ 200g Cooking Dark or Milk Chocolate
Add small pieces of cooking chocolate into a small heatproof bowl- Set aside
Pour Heavy Cream (Thickened Cream) into a small saucepan
Cook and stir on medium heat until it boils for 1 minute
Fill another small pan with 2cm of water and boil then let simmer
Place heatproof bowl with chocolate over the simmering pan
Pour the hot Heavy Cream over the chocolate
Stir the Heavy Cream and Chocolate until melted and well combined
Ganache mixture should be smooth then set aside to cool for 1 hour until it thickens
Add room temperature butter (soft not melted) into a large bowl
Beat the butter for a few minutes then scrape the bowl
Beat the butter until it is creamy and pale in colour
The butter should be creamy and pale
Check the Ganache mixture is thick and has cooled down
Whip the ganache for a minute until smooth
Add the ganache to the beaten butter and beat on high until well combined
Scrape the bowl and beat on high again until well combined
Add half the powdered sugar and mix well
Add the rest of the powdered sugar and mix well
Scrape the bowl once more then mix the buttercream again
Store the buttercream in the fridge and consume within 5 days
Let it soften and remix with a spoon before using to pipe or frost a cake