Ombre Chocolate Buttercream
White, milk and dark chocolate buttercream swirled together.
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 sticks butter
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 ½ cups organic powdered sugar (sifted)
- 6 oz chopped white chocolate (melted and cooled)
- 6 oz chopped milk chocolate (melted and cooled)
- 6 oz dark chocolate (70%, melted and cooled)
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1 tablespoon dutch process cocoa
Instructions
- 1
Beat butter until light and fluffy - about 5 minutes.
- 2
Add vanilla and sea salt, beat for 1 minute.
- 3
Add powdered sugar and beat to combine.
- 4
Weigh your mix and separate equally into three bowls.
- 5
Melt the white chocolate. Once fully melted, pour into a bowl to cool.
- 6
Melt your milk chocolate in the same bowl, no need to wash it. Pour into another bowl to cool.
- 7
Once the white chocolate is cool, add it to one of the bowls with the buttercream. Repeat steps with the milk chocolate and the dark chocolate.
- 8
To the bowl with the dark chocolate, add the sugar and cocoa.
- 9
Onto a piece of plastic wrap, spread each buttercream in lines next to each other.
- 10
Roll the plastic wrap and press to seal. Place in piping bag and decorate as you like.