I am making a baby shower cake next week with vanilla on the bottom and chocolate on the top. Does anyone have a certain buttercream/chocolate buttercream recipe that is tried and true that everyone loves??? I am trying to break away from using the wilton recipe and want to try something new but would like some input!
TIA!!!!!!!!!!
I use a recipe by a lady called Serious Cakes. She is here on CC and you can find her videos on Youtube, just search for her name. As a matter of fact, she has a video on making her buttercream, which includes the recipe. Check it out there, because I'm at my office right now and don't have the recipe. I think it is an excellent recipe, has great flavor, crusts nicely and is lovely to work with.
Try Sugarshacks buttercream recipe it's in the recipe section. It is so yummy tasting and if you have any questions she is so good about answering them.
I love serious cakes frosting too! Here are the links
youtube.com
I've used seriouscake recipe its great the only problem i had was that the bc started dripping from my pipping bad and some roses started to fall off maybe i didn't use it correct or the climate had some thing to do with it (it was 104that day) .don't know
ceani-sounds like hot hands and a hot house!! Use less liquid and here's what I do when decorating in extreme heat and humidity: I fill a pie pan with ice, place another pie pan on top of the ice and put my frosting bags on top pie pan. I have very hot hands and it's tough decorating in the summer time. I either have to pipe very fast or use my handy dandy insta-fridge! 
l80bug79 -let me know how it goes for you!
And thank you everyone 
ceani-sounds like hot hands and a hot house!! Use less liquid and here's what I do when decorating in extreme heat and humidity: I fill a pie pan with ice, place another pie pan on top of the ice and put my frosting bags on top pie pan. I have very hot hands and it's tough decorating in the summer time. I either have to pipe very fast or use my handy dandy insta-fridge!
l80bug79 -let me know how it goes for you!
And thank you everyone
Any tips on making the chocolate darker? should i use the dark choc melts instead of choc chips?
Your cake looks awesome! I usually add a little bit of brown to the frosting to make it the color I like.
I would agree with nickshalfpint, although you could also use the 'special dark' Hershey's cocoa powder in place of the melted chocolate, you'd need about 1 1/2 c. I haven't tried that but I've read about other people doing it.
Your cake looks awesome! I usually add a little bit of brown to the frosting to make it the color I like.
thanks....
i'll try that next time. just had the "begginer bag of colors" (wilton pastes) to work with at the time, but i've since gotten some better colors.
that was my anniv. cake to my hubby last week. we watch entirely TOO MUCH Tombstone (where the line comes from) and i just threw a huckleberry hound to go with it. lol
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