Chocolate Buttercream

A basic buttercream to decorate cakes and sandwich between layers. This recipe should make enough to fill and coat a two-layer 20 cm (8”) round cake. Try adding flavourings to make chocolate orange icing or add coffee to make mocha icing.

Difficulty

Low

Time

5 min

Author

Kenwood

This recipe is prepared with:

Products

Kenwood Go Stand Mixer Storm Blue KZM35.000GY

Kenwood Go Stand Mixer Storm Blue KZM35.000GY

Ingredients

Servings

1

250 g unsalted butter, cubed, room temperature

500 g icing sugar

80 g cocoa powder

2 Tbsp milk

Utensils

KZM35.000GY, KZM35.000RD, KZM35.000GR, K-Beater

Instructions

Step 1

Fit the K-Beater.

Add butter, sugar, cocoa powder and milk into the appliance bowl.

Mix for 2 minutes on speed 3 until smooth and then scrape the bowl.

Tip: Start the speed on Min and gradually increase speed.

Mix for 2 minutes on speed 1 until creamy.

Use as desired.

You can also prepare this recipe* with:

Products

KENWOOD GO STAND MIXER KZM35.000RD

KENWOOD GO STAND MIXER KZM35.000RD

Kenwood Go Stand Mixer Eucalyptus Green KZM35.000GR

Kenwood Go Stand Mixer Eucalyptus Green KZM35.000GR