Hope your all well!? Todays post is a short and easy recipe on chocolate buttercream and a few tips on how to crumb coat a cake! For those of you who don't know about crumb coating, its a technique used to seal in the crumbs of the cake.....its kind of like primer, a base coat if you like! Before i cover my cakes in fondant i always begin by doing a crumb coat with buttercream, not only does this seal the crumbs, it adds flavour and gives your cake a smoother finish! If you want the finish of the cake to be buttercream icing, it is best to first do a crumb coat and then a final coat for a super smooth finish! I wanted to create a simple chocolate cake covered in chocolate buttercream, so let's start on the recipe for chocolate buttercream:)
Chocolate buttercream:
3tbsp butter
1/4cup of milk
2tsp cocoa powder
Aprox 4cups of icing sugar (depending on the consistency...too runny add more icing sugar, too thick add more milk)
Method:
Beat together the butter and some of the milk, save 1tsbp of the milk incase we need it later
Add in the cocoa and mix well
Finally add in the icing sugar gradually until your buttercream forms stiff peaks! You may need more icing sugar to thicken it up or you may need to use the saved milk if its too thick! Once mixed, beat for a few minutes until the mixture is light and fluffy!
Now let's move onto crumb coating the cake!
Take a really big scoop of the buttercream and put it onto the top of the cake, take a flat spatular and start gently spreading the mix outwards, let it come over the sides
Don't worry about the top being perfect yet, now onto the sides start smoothing the buttercream that has fallen down the sides around the cake, you will need to add more to the sides, dont worry about it being perfect yet, just get the cake covered in a good layer of buttercream first.
Once the cake has a good amount of buttercream around it, take a glass of hot water, and dip your spatular in it, place your spatular flat on the side of the cake, without stopping gently drag it around the sides of the cake. Keep repeating (dipping the spatular in hot water and smoothing) until you have a smooth cake! Do the same for the top of the cake! For a crumb coat you don't want the icing to be thick and it doesn't need to be perfect! Here is my crumb coat
I decorated mine into a chocolate drizzle cake for my fiancés birthday cake, i poured chocolate ganache over, added fondant letters and coloured sprinkles!
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Happy baking
Xxx
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