Description
My Favourite Chocolate Frosting tastes like the most delicious chocolate mousse you’ve ever had. It’s beautifully creamy, completely smooth, with a rich chocolate flavour and far less sweet than buttercream. It’s sturdy enough for piping and spreading.
Ingredients
Scale
- 200 g / 7 oz dark chocolate chips or melts
- 3/4 cup thickened cream / heavy cream
- 1/4 cup dutch processed cocoa powder
- 100 g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
- 250 g soft icing sugar / powdered sugar, sifted
- 250 g / 8 oz Philadelphia cream cheese block, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup thickened cream / heavy cream, fridge cold
- 1/4 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt
Instructions
- Bloom cocoa with cream for 5 minutes. Melt chocolate, mix with bloomed cocoa, cool 15 minutes. Beat butter, then icing sugar, then cream cheese until smooth. Beat in chocolate. Chill 2 hours. Add cream, whip to stiff peaks. Use immediately to frost or pipe. Chill finished cakes 30 minutes to set before serving.
- Bloom cocoa – Heat the cream in a heatproof bowl until hot but do not boil. Add cocoa powder and whisk until lump-free. Set aside 5 minutes to bloom.
- Melt chocolate – Place chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl and melt in the microwave in bursts until smooth.
- Add the cocoa paste into the melted chocolate. Whisk until combined and smooth. Cool for 15 minutes.
- In a separate bowl, beat butter until soft and fluffy. Add icing sugar and beat until it resembles wet sand. Add cream cheese and beat until smooth.
- Add all the chocolate paste and beat until combined.
- Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 2 hours until properly fridge-cold.
- Add cream and salt to the bowl. Beat on high for 1 1/2 minutes until stiff peaks form.
- Use immediately to frost cakes and pipe onto cupcakes. Refrigerate frosted cakes for at least 30 minutes before serving.
- Once set, the frosting will hold its shape in the fridge and will not deflate.
Notes
- This frosting has 70% less sugar than buttercream.
- It can be stored in the fridge for days before use.
- For a thicker frosting, add more powdered sugar.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Mixing and whipping
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 cup
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 80 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 15 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
Keywords: Chocolate Frosting, Dessert, Baking