Chocolate Buttercream recipe to fill cakes

If you have a sweet tooth like me and you cannot stay away from desserts for a long time, you will have to save this easy recipe to make it as soon as possible. The chocolate buttercream to fill cakes is a super simple preparation, even for those who have no idea of ​​pastry, and the result is a smooth cream with an irresistible chocolate flavor that you can use to decorate cakes, but not only for that, but also for decorate cupcakes and even cookies.

You barely need three basic ingredients, and you’ll see how we’ll make a simple butter cream to which we’ll add a touch of melted chocolate to give it color and, of course, a little more flavor.

Prepare your pastry bag because following the recipe for chocolate butter cream, in less than 10 minutes, you will be ready to decorate your best desserts.

Ingredients to make Chocolate Buttercream to fill cakes:

• 100 grams of milk chocolate
• 250 grams of Butter
• 250 grams of icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon of whole milk
• 1 teaspoon of Vanilla

How to make Chocolate Buttercream to fill cakes:

1. Chocolate buttercream is normally made with dark chocolate, but we decided to change the traditional recipe a bit to give it a softer touch.
2. So the first step is to melt the chocolateuntil it’s completely melted.
3. You can do this in a bain-marie or by heating in the microwave for 20-second intervals.
4. Now place the softened butter in a bowl and beat together with the icing sugar, milk and vanilla.
5. Use an electric mixer to mix these ingredients until you get a creamy texture and a whiter color.
6. If you have regular sugar, you can powder it by following the instructions in the icing sugar recipe.
7. At this point we can add the melted chocolate, but be very careful since this chocolate must be warm to maintain the liquid texture but not hot.
8. If we add it hot, what we will do is melt the butter in the mixture and we will spoil our cream to decorate cakes.
9. Then add the chocolate without stopping beating until fully integrated. We must beat at least 2-3 minutes.
10. Now you only have to enjoy this delicious chocolate buttercream to fill cakesand decorate desserts at will.