Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
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5 Reviews
This smooth and creamy chocolate butter frosting is perfect to spread over a favorite cake.
10 min
Prep Time
10 min
Total Time
2 cups

Ingredients

1/2 cup
Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
2 1/2 cups
powdered sugar
1/4 cup
unsweetened cocoa
Dash salt
1/4 cup
Land O Lakes® Heavy Whipping Cream
1 (1-ounce) square
unsweetened baking chocolate, melted
1 tablespoon
light corn syrup

Directions

  1. Beat butter in bowl at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, cocoa and salt alternately with whipping cream and melted chocolate, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Stir in corn syrup.

Recipe Tips

- This recipe will be enough to frost one (13x9-inch) cake or 12 cupcakes.

- Add additional whipping cream, if necessary, for desired spreading consistency.

Nutrition Facts (2 tablespoons)

Calories
150
Cholesterol
20mg
Carbohydrates
21g
Protein
1g
Fat
8g
Sodium
80mg
Dietary Fiber
<1g

Recipe Comments and Reviews

Rating

This frosting is easy, creamy rich buttery and delicious - very yummy, I've used it to frost chocolate cakes for church potlucks and for my boyfriend's birthday and it never fails to receive rave reviews and many "Mmmmmmmms". It will very generously frost a 9x13 inch cake. I love it!

Posted September 01, 2015 by Gayle

Rating

Very good! After reading that it was dry and hard to spread- i expected to use a little extra cream. I used almost 3 times the heavy cream from what the recipe said! Also- it EASILY frosted and filled a 9 inch round layer cake and i tend to use a LOT of frosting! I almost doubled it when it said it would only frost 12 cupcakes- glad I didn't. It made a lot!

Posted March 30, 2015 by patrice

Rating

Delicious! This is my new "go to" chocolate frosting.

Posted January 11, 2010 by Robin

Rating

This is fantastic butter cream! I finished the cake then spooned the left overs into my mouth - very yummy! Smooth, chocolatey and easy to work with for cake decorating. Not too sickly either.

Posted February 04, 2009 by alison

Rating

This frosting tastes ok, but it was very hard to spread. It was too dry and was very difficult to spread on the cake. It actually lifted off the cake when I tried to spread evenly. More whipping cream may help.

Posted January 20, 2009 by Beth

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