This is my favorite chocolate buttercream recipe. It's incredibly rich, creamy, silky, smooth, and easy to work with for decorating cakes and cupcakes! What Tastes Best with Chocolate Buttercream?

Ingredients of Chocolate cake with chocolate butter icing

  1. It's of Cake.
  2. It's 125 grams of dark chocolate.
  3. It's 3 tbsp of milk.
  4. You need 150 grams of butter-room temperature.
  5. Prepare 150 grams of caster sugar.
  6. You need 3 of eggs.
  7. You need 200 grams of plain flour.
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp of cocoa powder.
  9. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
  10. You need 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
  11. It's of chocolate butter icing.
  12. It's 75 grams of butter-room temperature.
  13. Prepare 1 tbsp of cream.
  14. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  15. You need 157 grams of icing sugat.
  16. It's 1 tbsp of good quality cocoa powder.
  17. It's 1 of icing sugar/cocoa powder, choc shavings to dust.

Chocolate cake with chocolate butter icing step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 180 C/gas mark 4. Butter and flour the sides of two 20cm cake tins and line base with greaseproof paper.
  2. FOR THE CAKE: Place chocolate and milk in a bowl sitting over a saucepan of gently simmering water and heat until the chocolate has melted. Make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Set aside to cool slightly.
  3. Beat the butter until soft then add caster sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time then fold in the melted chocolate..
  4. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and fold in gently to mix. Divide the mixture between the two tins and bake in the oven for about 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean..
  5. Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to sit for 5 minutes before turning them out of their tins and placing them on a wire rack to cool..
  6. Once cakes are cool, sandwich them together with the chocolate butter icing. Place the cake on a plate or a cake stand and either dust with cocoa powder or make double quantities of the icing and spread over the cake..
  7. FOR THE ICING: Beat the butter, cream and vanilla extract until very soft. Gradually sift in the icing sugar and the cocoa powder, beating all the time until it is all added. Continue to beat until very soft then whisk mixture until it is light and fluffy..

This chocolate butter cake recipe is moist and simple to make. It's a scratch chocolate cake with butter, which gives it a really rich flavor. I love it because it's not so overloaded with a super chocolaty flavor and I can still taste the butter flavor coming through. Chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. This recipe has been a favorite for birthdays in my family for years.

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