Chocolate Buttercream

Preparation info
  • About

    1½ cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

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Ingredients

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla ext

Method

Place egg yolks, sugar and vanilla in the container of an electric blender. Blend for three minutes, adding soft butter gradually until it is absorbed. Then add enough cold butter, in small pieces, to make the cream fairly thick. Add chocolate and blend until smooth.