Double cream and cocoa powder - for Butterfly cake filling?

Burp_2

Can I use double cream and cocoa powder for the filling of butterfly cakes?

Here's my plan ...

I have a pint of double cream that needs to be used by tomorrow ... so I was planning to mix some cocoa powder with milk to make a paste ... add this to the cream and whip to piping consistency ... then pipe into the cakes ... and then freeze so that I can pull a couple out each day for lunchboxes... will this work?

cheers

Burp x

Gigervamp

I think I'd add some icing sugar. Cocoa powder on its own is pretty bitter tasting.

Other than that, I don't see any problem.

recovering_spendaholic

I second the icing sugar vote - cocoa powder is very bitter on its own. they sound nice!

Burp_2

Thanks for the replies!

Forgot about sugar! lol

Any idea on quantities then if I add icing sugar? And also method ... would it be sift cocoa powder and icing sugar in to cream and then whip?

Burp x

recovering_spendaholic

I don't think that the cocoa and cream will mix - the cocoa will stay in flecks and not dissolve. I would sift the icing sugar into the cream before whipping - I reckon about 2oz for a pint of cream, and then mix the cocoa powder into a bit of hot water or milk until dissolved ( or you could take a little of the cream and gently heat it with the cocoa powder until it is dissolved and then cool it and add it back to the cream and whip the lot. You don't actually need that much - 2 heaped tsps should do it.

Burp_2

Thanks RecoveringS - I'll mix the cocoa powder with a little milk then ... wish me luck! I'm off to the kitchen... I may be some time!

Burp x

Burp_2

Well I have to say that it made the yummiest lightest buttercream ever

With 1 pint of double cream I added 4oz of icing sugar and 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder with 1tbsp of milk

Altho... i made 24 cakes and there is still half of the buttercream left ... so gotta make another 24 cakes! First batch are in the freezer ... fingers crossed they freeze ok!

Burp x

crawley_girl

Oh yum... sound great!