Hi I am Petra Cox with Moms Apple Pie Bakery in Occoquan, Virginia. We are making a chocolate cake thats in the oven right now.

Now, we have enough time to make a really good Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting to ice our cake with when it's done baking. For a butter cream, I basically start with a pound of butter, and it has to be nice and soft, so it's a workable consistency. I have also a, just a bowl of Confectioners Sugar, just powdered sugar here. You can find that at any grocery store. What I like to do is just added half a cup at a time into the butter while it's mixing, until the consistency is of nice, spreadable yet firm because it's for icing the cake. I also like to put about a teaspoon of salt and around two teaspoons of real vanilla in that too. We are going to melt the chocolate and add that into the icing after we've achieved a nice consistency.

So, let's get started.