The easiest, best buttercream for icing and decorating cakes, cupcakes or cookies. This formulation tastes like vanilla ice cream!
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A light, delicious, not-too-sweet icing. It’s almost like the middle of a 3-Musketeers bar! This icing is fabulous on cupcakes, cakes, even cookies. It’s important to really whip this buttercream for a good few minutes after all the ingredients have been incorporated. I use the balloon whip attachment of my stand mixer to really pump air into the buttercream. You’ll know that the buttercream is getting fluffy when you can see it increasing in volume and lightening in color.
A deep, dark chocolatey cake that is moist and almost custard-like, while still being light. The mayonnaise is an unlikely key ingredient that makes this cake so full-proof and special. The crumb is delicate, but sturdy enough to hold any kind of icing you wish to spoon on. This recipe makes 3 8-inch round layers (for a tall layer cake) or one 11 x 15-inch sheet cake. 3 cups all purpose flour 1 cup Hershey’s special dark cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoons salt 4 eggs 1 1/2 cups mayo 2 cups dark brown […]