Butter Cream

Name: Butter Cream
Ingredients: 150 g/5 oz couverture, melted; 3 egg yolks; 175 g/6 oz caster sugar; 5 tbsp water; 175 g/6 oz unsalted butter, room temperature

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

Not only can you use this for fillings but also you can cover a whole cake with this indulgent luxury. Vary the flavour by adding vanilla essence, rum, Armagnac, herbs, coffee.

Ingredients

175 g/6 oz unsalted butter, room temperature
175 g/6

Garnish
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Whisk the butter until it’s creamy. Dissolve the sugar in the water then boil for 2-3 minutes to 107°C/235°F.

Whisk the egg yolks and pour in the syrup slowly, continuing to whisk all the time until the mixture becomes thick and very pale. Beat in the butter; a spoonful at a time.

Add the melted chocolate and whisk again for the final time.