Change The Color Of Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Decorating By LarissaEmily Updated 14 Sep 2007 , 1:44pm by Sugar_Plum_Fairy
I want to make a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. The catch is I don't want the frosting to be brown, I want it to be a completely different color. So can I somehow flavor my buttercream to taste like chocolate without being brown. 
Is there such thing as a chocolate flavoring or extract that would make regular old frosting taste like yummy chocolate frosting?????
Thanks!!
Larissa
yes, there is a such thing as chocolate flavoring, lorann makes some. go to the website or visit your local cake deco. supply store...
http://www.lorannoils.com/Products.asp?SubColumnName=Flavorings
Thanks for confirming for me that the chocolate flavoring does exist. Does it really taste like chocolate??? It just doesn't make any sence to me for something to taste like chocolate if it isn't chocolate, Or IS it some form of chocolate????
Larissa
There's also chocolate extract. I've only used it once, but it was in conjuntion with another flavor so I'm not sure how chocolatey it tastes.
does anyone think that maybe a chocolate coffee creamer added might work? that is if they make Chocolate flavored coffee creamer. I am not a coffee drinker so I don't really know. Isn't coffee creamer off white colored?
The coffee creamers with chocolate flavor are chocolate-colored.
I make different colors with my peanut butter icing, but I assume a chocolate one will be too dark, unless you're looking for just a hint of flavor. Might try the flavorings to see.
Let us know the results of the experiment!
I've tried the chocolate oil by Lorann and didn't think it tasted very chocolate-y.
You could try icing the cake in chocolate buttercream, and then lay a thin layer of vanilla buttercream over that (colored whatever shade you need). I think that the chocolate buttercream would cover the vanilla flavor and you'd get the flavor and color you want.
OT, but the reason why I think that would work - my husband had called on on a client years ago (an ice cream manufacturer) and in the course of the meeting, was told that whenever a batch of ice cream didn't turn out quite the way it was supposed to, chocolate would be thrown in the batch so that it could be sold, and that's why they called chocolate ice cream the garbage flavor! 
Ok so I got the Chocolate flavored Oil and it made the frosting taste horrible. More like strange chemical rather than chocolate.
Oh well won't be using chocolate frosting I guess.....
thanks for all of the advice.
Larissa
Larissa,
For the future, What you can do is use chocolate buttercream and then fondant over that colored whatever color you want. If you put a good layer of chocolate buttercream under the fondant you will definitely taste it.
Also, there is probably a way to make white chocolate buttercream. That sounds yummy...
White chocolate bc recipes can be found right here on CC!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-5003-0-Crusting-White-Chocolate-Buttercream.html and http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2096-1-White-chocolate-buttercream.html
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