Chocolate Butter Icing Recipe

Chocolate Butter Icing mixed

A great icing for chocolate cake, when made well it is like a chocolate cream. Will ice more than 45 cup cakes.

This recipe for Chocolate Butter Icing serves 24 people.

Time required: 5 minutes
(5 minutes to prepare, no cooking required)

Ingredients you'll need:

• 250 g butter, softened
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder, we use Cadburys
• 5 tbsp milk
• 6 cups of icing sugar

How to make Chocolate Butter Icing:

1. Sift the icing sugar and cocoa together in a large bowl.
2. Add in the butter and a bit of milk and mix with a hand beater
3. Keep adding milk to you obtain the right consistency that is required for icing the cake.

Recipe Notes:

You can vary the amount of milk.

Great for topping off your 5 Minute Chocolate Cake recipe

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