Chocolate Cream Icing
by Mrs. Alim
Soft and creamy – ideal for filling and frosting cakes.
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup chilled soya cream
- 250 g chilled dairy cream
- 2–3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2–3 tbsp icing sugar
- A pinch of salt
- Few drops of vanilla essence
Method
- Boil the sugar and water for 5 minutes and allow it to cool.
- Whisk the soya cream with cocoa powder.
- Add the dairy cream, icing sugar, salt, and vanilla essence.
- Whip until light and fluffy.
- Brush each cake layer with sugar syrup.
- Spread the cream between the layers and cover the cake with the remaining cream.