Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe

The most favorited homemade frosting for cakes and cupcakes is chocolate buttercream frosting. This simple recipe that is essential in your baking “tool box”. Make the chocolate lovers in your life happy with the best chocolate buttercream recipes on all your favorite cakes.

It’s such an easy recipe! If this is your first time making frosting, you can’t miss with this chocolate frosting recipe. This easy chocolate buttercream frosting is what your cakes will beg for. Just a few simple ingredients and in five minutes you have super delicious chocolate buttercream frosting. For thicker frosting add less milk. Not only is this a delicious frosting, it is the perfect frosting and is used on some of the most popular recipes. Of course you can never really have too much frosting, but if more than enough frosting is left over, just refrigerate in an airtight container or freezer bags for approximately 4 days.

Ingredients

• 1 cups unsalted butter, room temperature
• ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
• 16-oz. powdered sugar
• 1-2 tablespoons whole milk
• 1 teaspoon real vanilla extract

Equipment

• Large Mixing Bowl
• Electric Mixer or electric hand mixer

Instructions

1. Mix the butter and cocoa powder in a large bowl until well blended.
   
2. Add the powdered sugar and mix on low speed until all of the sugar is combined.
   
3. Stir in milk and vanilla extract, if using, to reach desired consistency of the frosting for best results.

Goes well with

• cakes, such as yellow cake, sheet cake, birthday cakes even wedding cakes.
• cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes
• brownies
• cookies

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