Whipped Chocolate Cream Cake Frosting
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Yields:
-
3 cups
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream (whipping)
- 1 1⁄3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1⁄3 cup confectioners' sugar (to garnish) (optional)
directions
- Heat heavy cream in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Add chocolate chips. Remove from heat and stir with rubber spatula until melted and smooth. Transfer to a large bowl of electric mixer and refrigerate about 2 hours, stirring twice, until just chilled. (If mixture gets too cold, it will be too stiff to beat properly.).
- Beat mixture with electric mixer just until soft peaks form when beaters are lifted. (Cream will continue to thicken after a few minutes at room temperature, so be careful not to overbeat or it will turn curdy and grainy. Should this happen, you can salvage it by remelting, rechilling, and rebeating.).
- To assemble, trim top of cakes with long serrated knife, cutting off any raised areas. Place 1 cake layer on serving plate. spread 1 cup chocolate cream evenly over layer. Top with another cake layer and 1 more cup chocolate cream. Reserve some cream for piping decorations, then ice sides and top with a thin layer of chocolate cream.
- Put reserved chocolate cream in pastry bag with an open star tip. Pipe a border around bottom and top edge of cake. Refrigerate until serving. If desired, just before serving, carefully stencil the confectioners sugar on top of the cake.
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