How To Make Coffee Buttercream Frosting

Hi there .

I'm Lizzie .

Welcome to the cupcake Emporium here in Lancaster Gate , London .

We've been making cupcakes here for a year and a half now , and we're proud to have some of the biggest cupcakes in London , which are also really low calorie .

I'm gonna show you how to make some frostings .

Here's how it's done .

I'm gonna show you how to make a coffee frosting .

Now , this is really nice on top of a chocolate cupcake to give it a nice sort of mocker feel .

Mm , It's really good .

Um , we're gonna put in here a syrup which we've made .

It's like a paste using instant coffee Granules and a just a tiny drop of , um , cold water .

Uh , we use instant coffee to give it much more flavour .

If you try and use fresh like brewed coffee .

Um , it just it it's not as flavoursome .

You have to use a lot of liquid , and then it goes all runny and it's a disaster .

So just use a tiny little bit of paste .

Um and it gives it a really full coffee flavour .

OK , so to start with , we've got 250 grammes of butter , so It's just going straight in the bowl there , and this is a cup and a half of icing sugar .

Get it all in .

And then here's our coffee paste .

There's about three tablespoons of coffee and then just the tiniest splash of water , and you can see the sort of consistency that it should be thick , quite pasty and runny .

There you go .

Just pour that in there and you'll see when it's all mixed up , it'll give it a nice , creamy , light kind of coffee colour .

OK , I'm gonna mix it all up .

You can use a hand whisk or an electric whisk at home , and there you go .

You can see when it's finished .

It's got that nice light coffee colour .

Nice , creamy consistency .

That's a nice coffee butter cream frosting and so