Hi Everyone:

I'm sure this is posted somewhere on here, and I promise I have tried to search for it, but for some reason I can never find what I'm searching for....

Anyway... I was wondering if anyone would share with me their favorite chocolate buttercream recipe using cocoa. You can post, or pm me, whichever you prefer. I have made it using the melted chocolate and I didn't care for it. It tasted like cheap Easter candy filling... weird, I know. May have just been a bad recipe - maybe it's supposed to taste like it did and I just don't care for chocolate buttercream (I've never had it other than the time I made it).

I was in a cake store not too long ago and the guy told me to try making it with cocoa (Dutch). So, that's what I'm trying to do - see if it's just me, or if I can find another - better - recipe.

Thanks a lot for sharing.

what recipe did you use?

Honestly, I don't remember. I think it's one I got from allrecipes. I just remember that it used melted chocolate instead of cocoa.

This the one I use! I love it. It crusts and it tasted great.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-7293-Crusting-Chocolate-Fudge-Buttercream-Icing.html

you can take any bc recipe and just add cocoa (or chocolate) - either a traditional all butter/ ps one, or indydebis is what i use.
xx

Thanks mariela... I didn't see that one!

brincess... Interesting! I honestly hadn't thought of that. So, I can take my regular recipe and just add cocoa.... Hmmm.... How much should I add? Or should I just add until it tastes as chocolatey as I want it to?

Thanks so much for your help.

i just add to taste/ til it looks right. you might need to add more milk/ water (choc milk is the best option!) so tat it works the same way.
xx

I personally don't care for choc buttercream all that much but I usually use Hershey's recipe. My DH loves it. The recipe is at the bottom of the page. HTH!

http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184&page=2&per=25&category_id=13&keyword=frosting&CategoryPage=true#content_area

I buy it from NY Cake in NYC which is about the only place on the planet I've been able to find it. It's a french chocolate that only about five years ago became available to the public and even then it's sooooo expensive that pretty much only the pastry chefs buy it. But believe me, the taste is WELL worth it! If you look in my pix, the chocolate heart's desire cake and the pink and chocolate cupcakes were done using the dark chocolate buttercream (that should give you an idea of how dark it is -- my camera photographs it almost black! But the taste... well, can you say DIVINE??

haha no wonder i've never heard of it I'm in canada! haha.. agh, it sounds tasty though!!

I use the chocolate buttercream from epicurious.com, it uses chocolate ganache in it. Here are the links for the recipes. This crusts up nicely and tastes absolutely awesome. My DH and I eat it by the spoonful.

Chocolate Buttercream recipe
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Buttercream-109248

Chocolate Ganache recipe
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Ganache-109253

Well I can't be sure but it may be. I buy it in nondescript plastic containers from NY cake (they get it in bulk and repackage it) so I've never seen it in that kind of packaging. It's unsweetened cocoa powder that is very, very dark brown (and even unsweetened smells heavenly!) I tried to find a link to the NY Cake page but they're redoing their website so it'll have to wait.