This is a good chocolate buttercream recipe for actually frosting the cake, but to decorate with it, substitute some of the butter with shortening for a stiffer consistency.

This recipe is the absolute best! I make it all the time. Every time I make it my family hopes there will be left overs after frosting the cake so they can dig in with a spoon to this amazing chocolate buttercream.

I always use a buttercream for my cakes, and this is the best chocolate one I have found yet. It's smooth, chocolatey without being overpowering, and never chalky. To cut the chocolate I did add a pinch of espresso powder and it was even better! But be careful, it does melt easily.

I make my own birthday cake so that I get real buttercream frosting and not the flavored grease in a can. I used this recipe last year and loved it so much I did it again. Last year I thought I was out of cocoa so I used the same unsweetened chocolate that I used in the cake, also a recipe from here Best Chocolate Cake. Love your site, I get a lot of recipes here.

This is my all time favorite. I always asked my Mom to double the batch. I haven't tried the chocolate kind, I surely will, but we always made it plain then added 2 tbsp. of Peanut Butter. Its really good on chocolate cake. I would use the smooth, not crunchy Peanut Butter, that's a little different, but still very good.