Keeping a canister of cocoa powder in your cupboard means you'll always be just a few minutes away a spoonful of this fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting.
This cocoa powder frosting is the perfect topping for piped Italian butter cookies.
Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe with Cocoa Powder
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The chocolate buttercream recipe I'm sharing with you is from an old out of print Italian cookie cookbook.
However, you can find similar cookie recipes in Nonna's Way.
Easy Homemade Chocolate Icing Tips
This recipe uses butter.
But, if you're say, quarantined and you only have margarine, use margarine.
Also, if you're out of milk, use cream or evaporated milk.
What kind of cocoa powder for frosting?
If you're going to the trouble, although it isn't much work, of making your own chocolate frosting, you want to use the best cocoa powder possible, right?
Cook's Illustrated rated cocoa powders and recommends Droste.
I like Hershey's Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder and I've also used Ghirardelli successfully.
Will this icing become crusty?
Eventually, if you leave the cookies out for several hours, the frosting will start to harden but it takes a while.
If you're looking for a cookie recipe with icing that hardens so you can stack the cookies for shipping, you want to make a royal icing.
Do you need recipes to use up the rest of that cocoa powder?
How about Double Chocolate Chunk Shortbread cookies?
These Rich Chocolate Mint Thumbprint Cookies are also amazing.
You might also like Double Chocolate Butterscotch Toffee Cookies.
Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream Rosettes, made with cocoa powder, are perfect for topping Italian butter cookies. Or anything else you've baked. Or heck, even for dipping pretzels into! Sift sugar and cocoa together in a medium bowl. In a mixing bowl, cream margarine or butter. Beat 1 cup sugar/cocoa mixture into margarine or butter. Add vanilla. Add remaining sugar/cocoa mixture Add milk. Mix well until mixture is fluffy. This will take about five minutes using an electric mixer on medium speed. Put frosting in a piping bag or in a container to store in the fridge if not using right away. Will frost 48 cookies. You can firm up icing by leaving cookies out uncovered. Then put in cookie jar or freeze layers of cookies using by covering with wax paper and sealing in freezer-safe container. When filling a piping bag with frosting, put the tip in the bag and then place the bag into a water glass so you can have both hands free to fill the bag with frosting. This post and/or recipe may contain affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, I'll earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. See Disclosure policy.
Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe with Cocoa Powder
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Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe with Cocoa Powder
