This past weekend, I made Miss M her Star Wars cupcakes as she requested for her 7th birthday. The cupcakes themselves were from a box. Duncan Hines Devil’s Food Cake Mix, to be precise. So that was easy enough.
Then came the frosting. I have never made it by hand before. I knew I wanted chocolate but it also had to require items that I already had on hand. Oh, yeah, it also had to be super easy. I did a search on my beloved pinterest and found it. The one. The best chocolate buttercream frosting that I have ever tasted.
- 1 cup (2 sticks!) unsalted butter (softened but not melted)
- 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream (or whole milk)
- Cream butter for a few minutes in mixer using paddle attachment on medium speed. Turn off mixer.
- Sift all of the confectioners sugar and cocoa powder into the mixing bowl. (I sifted before I measured).
- Turn mixer to lowest speed and add sugar and cocoa powder and mix until both are fully absorbed by the butter.
- Increase mixer to medium speed and add vanilla extract and cream/milk and beat for 3 minutes or so.
- Does it look alright? If so, you have made frosting! If it needs to be thinned out, add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time. If the frosting needs to be more stiff, add a little more sugar.
- make sure you refrigerate your frosted cupcakes overnight or a suitable length of time so that the frosting will not automatically absorb your design.
- if you are traveling with your cupcakes, do the decorating once you get to your destination. This is what we did and it took a whole five minutes for us to decorate about 24 cupcakes. Quick and Easy.
Overall, I was quite pleased on how the cupcakes turned out this year. We had some leftovers but they have since been eaten up. If that isn’t a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is.
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