BEST Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe – Just 5 mins (eggless recipe)
A good chocolate buttercream frosting can be a dream over cupcakes, cake, and desserts. Especially when it’s light, fluffy with just the right amount of chocolate. Today I share with you my secret to making the best chocolate buttercream recipe with this step by step video tutorial.
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If you take the trouble to bake a delicious cupcake don’t just frost it with a mixture of butter, sugar, and chocolate. Isn’t that what chocolate buttercream is? Butter sugar and chocolate. Well, yes and no! They may be just three main ingredients and yet, if you do it right it can be the best frosting recipe you have put on your cupcakes.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, often the difference between good and OMG is a little bit of extra effort. So today I share with you my way of making this chocolate buttercream frosting.
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About this frosting
It’s light, fluffy with just the right amount of chocolate. The trick is in whipping the buttercream so the whipped cream adds volume and stability. Also, the amount of chocolate is just right. So while it’s a decadent frosting it does not overshadow the cake or dessert.
Ideally, you want to use no less than 54% chocolate. And yet, I have often used up to 90% chocolate in an effort to keep the frosting less sweet. This works great for frosting cupcakes, cakes or dessert that needs chocolate buttercream.
Also, this is a very forgiving recipe that works great with any chocolate – dark, semi-sweet, milk, or white.
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Let’s talk ingredients and substitutes (Save/Pin)
- Butter – I prefer to use unsalted butter so I can control the quantity of salt in my recipe. And yet, if salted butter is all you gave go ahead and use it. Just omit salt in the recipe.
- Powdered sugar – Also known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar. When looking for powdered sugar always buy one made from cane sugar, not beet sugar. You will find the buttercream made from cane sugar does not have a grainy consistency.
- Fresh cream – Just a little but adds so much more. If you are unable to use the fresh cream I’d recommend using non-dairy creamer or just 2 tbsp of water. I like using 1/4 cup cream but if you need to pipe stiff borders useless it will keep the frosting stiffer.
- Chocolate – You can add more or use less chocolate in this recipe. It will affect the consistency and taste but in a good way. Like chocolate? Add more in quantity or a higher cocoa percentage.
- Vanilla – A good quality vanilla will make a huge difference in anything you make. Premium vanilla can be expensive, which is why I make my own homemade vanilla extract, bean paste or sugar.
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Recipe – The BEST Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (Save/Pin)
Useful Tips and Tools
- If you bake often, it would be a good idea to invest in a cake mixer. Because often we try to mix by hand and then we are too tired to give it enough creaming or mixing. So if you are making this buttercream go head and remove that K-Mix or KitchenAid from your kitchen cabinet. You don’t have to buy an expensive stand mixer, a simple hand mixer works great too.
- For buttercream mixing always use a paddle attachment so you do not incorporate too much air into the buttercream. Some recipes, however, such as meringue buttercreams, require the use of the whisk attachments.
- Having said that, a simple Bowl, whisk and Spatula with a little extra elbow grease will do too.
- Personally, I believe in measuring ingredients by weight, which makes my kitchen scaleone of the most valuable items when baking. The same goes for mymeasuring cups and measuring spoons. It’s always a good idea to have these handy and use them when baking rather than trying to guess measurements.
- After the buttercream is prepared always keep it sealed well in the fridge. This will prevent any odor from the other foods to attach itself to the buttercream. Therefore, I place my buttercream in a stainless steel storage (we try to avoid using plastic in our home). And I also cover the top surface of the buttercream with cling wrap.
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Ingredients
- Butter – 228 grams (2 sticks/1 cup)
- Powdered sugar – 375 grams (3 cups)
- Fresh cream -1/4 cup (30 ml or 4 tbsp)
- Chocolate – 100 grams (3.3 oz)
- Salt – 1/2 Tsp
- Vanilla – 1 tbsp
Method
- Melt chocolate in the microwave or double boiler – set aside to cool.
- Make sure the butter is room temperature not cold.
- Use a whisk or mixer and cream the butter for a minute.
- Add salt, fresh cream and vanilla – mix a minute longer, until well combined.
- Now add the powdered sugar one cup at a time.
- Once all the powdered sugar has been incorporated,
- Continue to mix for 2 to 3 minutes more until you have a light and fluffy buttercream.
- The cream in the mixture will whip and give you almost stiff peaks.
- Tip: If you do not whip enough the buttercream will be soft consistency which may not be pipeable. So whip until you have a stable whipped cream kinda light and fluffy frosting. (See video)
- Lastly, add the melted cooled chocolate to the buttercream and stir well to combine.
Do you need to top such a delicious buttercream?
Ideally, for kids cakes, we would sprinkle some non-perils. And yet, if you ask me, I love a good drizzle of chocolate ganache over my chocolate frosting and my vanilla buttercream frosting. I think it looks prettier and more elegant. Probably more inviting too.
These are my one bowl chocolate cupcakes with this chocolate buttercream frosting and a drizzle of my chocolate ganache (dark).
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And these are the same one-bowl cupcake recipe with white chocolate ganache drizzled on this chocolate buttercream frosting.
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Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe - Just 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 228 grams Unsalted Butter (2 sticks)
- 375 grams Powdered sugar
- 30 ml Fresh cream (4 tbsp)
- 100 grams Chocolate
- 1/2 tsp Salt -
- 1 tbsp Vanilla
Instructions
- Melt chocolate in the microwave or double boiler - set aside to cool.
- Make sure the butter is room temperature not cold.
- Use a whisk or mixer and cream the butter for a minute.
- Add salt, fresh cream and vanilla - mix a minute longer, until well combined.
- Now add the powdered sugar one cup at a time.
- Once all the powder sugar has been incorporated.
- Continue to mix for 2 to 3 minutes more until you have a light and fluffy buttercream.
- The cream in the mixture will whip and give you almost stiff peaks.
- Tip: If you do not whip enough the buttercream will be soft consistency which may not be pipeable. So whip until you have a stable whipped cream kinda light and fluffy frosting. (See video)
- Lastly, add the melted cooled chocolate to the buttercream and stir well to combine.
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Omg! This buttercream is a dream come true. I am not kidding Veena. I usually make swiss buttercream but I was in a hurry and came across your page. I could have eaten the whole bowl(but I didn’t)last night and robbed my cake!
Such an easy recipe to follow and the results were just outstanding.
Thank you so much for your posts.
Looking forward to all you offer your followers.
Have a blessed day!
Thank you so much, Mary. I am so happy to hear you enjoyed this so much. I do love this recipe myself.
Hi Veena
Thank you for the recipe. Can I substitute the melt chocolate with cocoa powder. How much will be the measurement for cocoa powder to use?
You can – just the cocoa into a paste with warm water – cool it then combine well. This will give you a richer color. THanks
Thank you so much Veena. Will try soon.
You are welcome
Thank you Veena for this recipe, seems so delicious & yummy.
Please recommend is there any substitution for cane sugar as it is not available at my region?
Also can I use this butter cream as filling and cover for my cake??
Many thanks in advance.
Thanks, Rasha. You can use this buttercream for filling and frosting cakes and cupcakes – inside and outside.
You can use whatever powdered sugar you get where you are – if possible find a one that’s made with beat sure. If not well, just use what you have. Hope this helps.
Many thanks for quick reply. Appreciate a lot your valuable time.
You are very welcome Rashna.
Wow I just found your recipes and these look amazing! It’s so hard to find all butter buttercream recipes! If I wanted this to crust, do I just add a little less cream? Or would it not crust?
You can add less cream for sure. I’m not much of a crusting buttercream person so my experience with crusting is very limited. But I believe it will crust with less cream. Thanks
Your buttercream frosting is total perfection! Love how easy this is to whip up…it always takes desserts to the next level 😀
Thank you, Tammy. A good frosting does take dessert to the next level.
When I bake cake for my son’s birthday next time, I will keep in mind this chocolate butter cream frosting, it looks so creamy and delicious.
Thanks, Swathi. yes, you must try this one.. you will really enjoy it.
I absolutely love that you’ve developed an egg free buttercream recipe. So many egg allergies nowadays but with your recipe, they will still be able to enjoy frosting.
Thank you Alexis. I always had this recipe on the blog!! It’s been on the blog since 2011 I think. Only difference is that earlier the Vanilla and Chocolate were together on the same post. Now I separated them so I could share the videos for them both. Glad you finally saw it. Enjoy!
Oh my God that frosting looks killer!My kids love cupcakes and what could be better than with frosting delicious as this one!
Thank you, Jyothi. Yes, your kids would love this.
A good buttercream is a recipe that every home cook needs!!! I love how incredibly detailed you are, I cannot tell you the number of times I am making a recipe and am left asking questions (ha!). This will be on standby for when I have to make cupcakes in 2 weeks for a special 1 year old <3
Thank you so much, Melissa. I know exactly what you mean. I have been there which is why I write my post the way I do.
There is no way I could resist those cupcakes if they were right in front of me. That frosting looks so silky smooth and amazing!! Really nicely done! Love your work…keep it up! (:
Thank you, Nicolas. Yes the frosting is to die for. Thanks
You are really getting me in the mood to bake. I can’t believe all the amazing frostings that you have. I know that your Swiss meringue is going to be at the tope of my list. Have you ever used Vanilla paste? Once I start baking again I want to get some.
Thank you, Marisa. I know the frosting is delicious. You will love it. I love using vanilla paste. In fact, I do homemade vanilla extract, bean paste, and sugar.
Oh Veena can you send me some of these delicious cupcakes?! Yum! That buttercream frosting looks PERFECT! I’m seriously craving this right now.
Aww, I so wish you were closer to me, Natalie my sweets. You would love these. This frosting is to die for.
Talk about a classic … butter cream icing! I’ve never tried making it, but this recipe sure seems to take all the guesswork out of it.
And who doesn’t love chocolate icing?!
Thank you, Noel. You will love this frosting. Real simple, easy and effortless.
I love how silky smooth this frosting looks. I bet everyone fought for the beaters on this delicious frosting! I know I would have
Thank you, Claudia. Yes, this frosting is really delicious and I love licking the beaters off myself.
My kids have been asking me to make such frosted cakes. Yours look so lovely. Btw, I am a huge fan of your works Veena!I really love the way you put everything together clearly that even a novice will find the recipe easy!
Thank you so much, Padmajha. So happy to hear that my method and recipes encourage you to try the recipes. Do let me know if you try my recipes. Always love feedback.
Well, I have a couple of chocoholics in the house. This would be the perfect icing for their birthday cupcakes or birthday cakes. I know they would also love this on brownies too.
Absolutely, Gloria. This would be perfect over cakes, cupcakes, and brownies too!
Buttercream icing is very popular in our area. Yours sounds easy to make and looks as good as any that I’ve seen in a store.
Thanks, Valerie. I think you will love this one.