Classic Chocolate Buttercream Icing for Cupcakes
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Icing for 9-10 heavily frosted cupcakes
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
3-4 T. heavy cream
2 tsp. vanilla
1/3 cup cocoa powder
2.5-3 cups powdered sugar
Add the butter and cream to the bowl of your stand mixer. Mix on medium speed with the whisk attachment until the butter and cream combine. Increase the speed to high and mix for 3-5 minutes until the mixture is light and fluffy, stopping to scrape down the sides a time or two. Add the vanilla, cocoa, and 2.5 cups of the powdered sugar. Mix on low until combined and then increase speed to medium and whip for 1 to 2 minutes.
The constancy of the icing is important if you are going to pile it high on a cupcake. It should be a medium consistency. If you mix the batch of icing with a metal teaspoon (the kind you use for dinner) it should stand up straight in the middle of the bowl when it is in the icing. So, you should be able to stir it with a spoon by hand but it should also be sturdy enough to hold the spoon up. If the icing is too thick, add a little cream. If it needs to be a little thicker add a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar and whip to combine until it’s sturdy enough.
Place in an icing bag and pipe on the cupcakes with tip 2A
I hope that your plants are all nice and cozy and didn’t freeze. This is such a fun time, I love the spring, not so much the spring in Idaho, it’s not too “springy”. Good luck with your chicks, i hope to someday have a bunch of chickens in my back yard eating the bugs out of my garden 🙂 Love your blog. Keep up the hard work!! thanks for the recipes, i love a good tried and true recipe.
what?! no peanut butter cupcake recipe?! No cookies & cream recipe?! just as well, since I can’t eat them right now.
I feel so honored you are so observant! The Cookies and cream wasn’t up to par and I didn’t get any pictures of the PB… I’ll do that sometime though. How is the no sugar going by the way? That baby is worth it, but it’s so hard!
WOW, these look absolutely fabulous!!
No sugar is going ok, as long as I don’t make any special desserts. I made an orange cake for a RS thing & it smelled so good I almost cried. but I refrained from eating it.