Jump to RecipeIf you love chocolate, this recipe needs to be in your kitchen collection.Once you make my Chocolate Whipped Cream with pieces of shaved chocolate folded in, you'll never go back.It's heavenly when piped on cupcakes, plopped on top of hot cocoa or spread on top of any layer cake.

You can even pipe it in a cup and serve it like mousse! I often hear from friends (and readers) that regular buttercream is just too sweet.It's heavy, dense and overly sweet to a point where you just eat the cake after scraping off some of the frosting.I tend to agree most of the time, unless it's my chocolate buttercream, where I rely on a splash of heavy cream to make it lighter and fluffier.

I do the same thing with my vanilla buttercream frosting when I use it for my small batch vanilla cupcakes.Because the whipped cream in these buttercream frostings created a light fluffiness, I thought about how fluffy a cake would be with an all whipped cream frosting.Heavy cream makes a light, ethereal frosting that packs just as much flavor as a buttercream! We know this from my whipped cream cream cheese frosting recipe, don't we? The cocoa powder and chocolate shavings make this recipe just as rich as a standard buttercream, without going overboard on the sweetness.

How to Make Chocolate Whipped Cream Making flavored whipped cream as a frosting is even easier than making buttercream, because you don't have to worry about the temperature of the butter being too cold

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