Without checking the recipes section I wanted to ask what the best recipe for Chocolate Butter cream icing is...I wanted opinions straight up cause posted recipes are hard to determine whether they are good or not. I'll be making about 4 recipes of butter cream icing for an up coming cake, I wanted to use Butter Cream for it to crust well cause the cake will be covered 95% in basket weave ....I read somewhere on CC in the forums that you can use canned chocolate icing added into your butter cream recipe...can someone give me the heads up on this and what it tastes like,and should I use fudge,chocolate or milk chocolate to do this?

Thanks in Advance, Mary

I don't know about using canned frosting in buttercream, but my favorite chocoalte buttercream is the chocolate syrup recipe posted on this site. It crusts up fairly well and is super delicious! Also if you use the hersheys super dark cocoa in it you get a deep chocoalte color, almost black! Use the regular cocoa and you get a nice chocolate color.

I had this delima yesterday. I was given great advice. Here's what I ended up doing. I made my all crisco BC icing added 3/4 cup of cocoa to 10x sugar before mixing it in. I wasn;t thrilled with the results. I put it in the fridge & left for church. I came home looked on Wilton's site. I looked in their recipe section & found their chocolate BC icing. I mixed the two icings together. The cake crusted very well. I almost did basketweave on teh cake. I didn't because I wasn't putting flowers on it. Hope this helps.

It is definitely chocolatey! It tastes a lot like fudge. AS a matter of fact if you have any left over melt it slightly and pour it over vanilla ice cream for a real treat!

I think it makes about 4 cups or so (not really sure) enought to ice and decorate an 8-inch round.

My favorite chocolate buttercream is the "Easy Chocolate Buttercream" recipe here on CC. I get compliments every time I make it! It tastes like the fudge buttercream my Grandma used to make!

So far I've had trouble any time I've tried to add cocoa powder to the icing - it comes out grainy. However, the chocolate syrup taste great! I didn't really get it to crust though...... I cant' remember the name of the recipe here but it involved Hershey's syrup. I think you can also melt some chocolate into the buttercream..... I haven't found a favorite recipe yet for decorating but for taste - the hershey syrup recipe is yummy yummy!!!!

I just did a chocolate basketweave last week, so I hope this helps! I made the Chocolate Syrup Frosting first in hopes that I could use it for the basketweave. It was very yummy, but was quite soft, so I had doubts about it holding up for a basketweave. (I'm sure I could have used more conf. sugar, but it seemed very sweet already, and I didn't want to make it sweeter!) So, I used it for the filling and crumb coat (and called it a "Chocolate Fudge Filling"!) and made the Chocolate Decorator's Buttercream (yummy, too!) for the basketweave. It worked perfectly for the basketweave. (I haven't downloaded my picture yet, sorry!)

I love the double chocolate BC on CC it's sooo good!!!!! Had rave reviews on it....even though mine siezed a little lol. They loved the little chunks.

Hmmm, it crusts up every time I make it? Not as stiff as regular buttercream, but definitely enough to do basketweave with. I was even able to use a viva papertowel on it to smooth with and didn't have any sticking.

Yes I made the frosting as it is listed in the recipe, but if it seems too thin to you go ahead and add a little extra powdered sugar. I use hershey's syrup and cocoa, I have tried it with both the regular hershey's cocoa and the special dark hershey's cocoa, they are both great however the special dark version turns out almost black.

Please let me know if the chocolate syrup frosting works for the basketweave. I made mine for a cake auction at my son's school, and knowing how hot it gets in the school for this fundraiser, I was worried that it wouldn't hold up. It seemed quite soft to me, and I followed the directions to the letter. Good luck!

OK so I have looked at all of the chocolate buttercream recipes (I think) listed in the recipes section. None of them list Hershey's syrup as an ingredient. What recipe is this exactly? I have been looking for a dark chocolate bc for the longest time.

It is called chocoalte syrup frosting. Here is the link:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2033-4-Chocolate-Syrup-Frosting.html

Thank you !

All great suggestions -- and here's another. I just made Toba Garrett's recipe from her book "The Well-Decorated Cake." It was fabulous!!!