Chocolate Buttercream Icing

Chocolate Buttercream Icing

How To Melt Chocolate

How To Melt Chocolate

Mixing Icing Ingredients

Mixing Icing Ingredients

Adding Chocolate to your Icing

Adding Chocolate to your Icing

Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Buttercream Icing

Chocolate Buttercream Icing

How to Make an Apple Pie

How to Make an Apple Pie

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

How to Make Pumpkin Pie

How to Make Pumpkin Pie

How to Make Irish Soda Bread

How to Make Irish Soda Bread

How to Make Apple Crisp

How to Make Apple Crisp

How to Make Quiche

How to Make Quiche

How to Make Peanut Butter Cookies

How to Make Peanut Butter Cookies

Simple Irish Soda Bread

Simple Irish Soda Bread

Classic Apple Crumb Pie

Classic Apple Crumb Pie

Simple Chocolate Chips Cookies

Simple Chocolate Chips Cookies

Picture Perfect Blueberry Muffins

Picture Perfect Blueberry Muffins

Make Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies

Make Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make Healthy Blueberry Muffins

How To Make Healthy Blueberry Muffins

How To Make Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

How To Make Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

How To Make French Bread Loaves

How To Make French Bread Loaves

How To Make Naan Flat Bread

How To Make Naan Flat Bread

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make A Red Wine & Strawberry Dessert

How To Make A Red Wine & Strawberry Dessert

How To Make Almond Baklava

How To Make Almond Baklava

How To Make Chocolate Silk Pie

How To Make Chocolate Silk Pie

How To Make Rich No Bake Cheesecake

How To Make Rich No Bake Cheesecake

How To Make Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels

How To Make Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Three Hot Chocolate Drinks

How To Make Three Hot Chocolate Drinks

View more ...

Petra Cox

www.momsapplepieco.com  

Petra is a specialty baker for Mom's Apple Pie Company, a family-run bakery with four locations in Northern Virginia. By the time she was born, the family business had been operating from their home for three years. Petra and her siblings grew up rolling crusts, peeling apples and baking pies with their parents from early on. In addition to bakery experience, Petra trained with family friend, Is Harris, making a variety of Thai cuisine from scratch, punctuating her culinary appreciation for both sweet and savory flavors and techniques. Subsequent training in oenology and cuisine both in Florence, Italy and Washington, DC led to her current position as wine buyer and recipe research and development at Mom's Apple Pie in Occoquan, Virginia.

Adding Chocolate to your Icing

Specialty baker Petra Cox demonstrates how to add the chocolate to the Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting.

This expert: 1,521,458 views
This series: 262,164 views

Download to Mobile Device

Print

Transcripts

So at this point, this is a basic butter cream frosting there, a vanilla butter cream. We are going to make a chocolate butter cream frosting for our cake and we are just going to put this melted butter. It's a little warm, but its cooled off and it's still liquidy. I just want to scrape everything you've got. So, you want all the chocolate flavor you can. This isnt going to be an extremely rich, Chocolate Ganoush type of icing. This is just a basic chocolate butter cream. The chocolate cake we made is already so rich that, and so chocolaty that a nice creamy chocolate frosting is perfect for it.

Alright, so we are going to put this for one last round in the mixer to integrate our chocolate. I just start off slow so that the chocolate doesnt fly all over to the side, and then work up to a quicker speed to integrate everything. So, at this point, almost everything is integrated into our chocolate icing. We've got our three cups of sugar, a pound of butter, and a teaspoon of salt, and two teaspoons of vanilla, and our three ounce dark chocolate bar, or you can use three ounces of chocolate chips or whatever you would like to use. I like to use dark chocolate, because it's going to make a butter cream that has the right consistency, and the perfect amount of chocolaty flavor, I think so. This is a somewhat paler chocolate butter cream. It's going to look really nice with the dark chocolate cake that we made. So, I am mixing up some of the, of whats on the bottom there, and whats on the side, so well give it one more round in the mixer before it's done.

That has a super, luscious, texture. There we have our chocolate butter cream for our dark chocolate cake. It has a nice, glossy, light brown color and it's the perfect soft consistency for spreading on the cooled cake layers. So thats how we make our chocolate butter cream frosting.

Good Job by zinnia2020 at 05/25/10 03:47AM Flag

Looks good but...you called the melted chocolate butter, two times. I've never tried bars of chocolate. I might try it.

by mastermiko at 06/17/08 07:25PM Flag

great job looks amazing

(Add Comment)

How to Make Cream Cheese Frosting for Your Pumpkin Dishes

How to Make Cream Cheese Frosting for Your Pumpkin Dishes

Adding Frosting to Your Pumpkin Dishes

Adding Frosting to Your Pumpkin Dishes

Chocolate Cake - Frosting your Cake

Chocolate Cake - Frosting your Cake

Holiday Recipes - Baking and Frosting Gingerbread Cookies

Holiday Recipes - Baking and Frosting Gingerbread Cookies

Making Pumpkin Rolls

Making Pumpkin Rolls

How to Drizzle a Bundt Cake

How to Drizzle a Bundt Cake

Halloween Recipes - Decorating Spooky Spider Cupcakes

Halloween Recipes - Decorating Spooky Spider Cupcakes

Halloween Recipes - Decorating Spooky Ghost Cupcakes

Halloween Recipes - Decorating Spooky Ghost Cupcakes

How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

Baking the Pumpkin Muffins, Loafs, and Cake

Baking the Pumpkin Muffins, Loafs, and Cake