Easy Chocolate Buttercream

Name: Easy Chocolate Buttercream
Yield: Makes 1 1/2 cups, enough for 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 cups, confectioners' sugar; Pinch, table salt; 4 ounces, semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2005

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

A simple buttercream is a canvas for a vast array of variations.

SERVESMakes 1 1/2 cups, enough for 12 cupcakes

TIME30 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Traditional buttercream frosting involves heating eggs and sugar over a pan of simmering water and whipping in butter while carefully monitoring for the correct temperature. Our easy buttercream recipe is equally delicious and much less fus...

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