Just because you are avoiding dairy doesn't mean you have to miss out on delicious chocolate buttercream. A perfect&nbsp;topping for dairy free chocolate cupcakes.&nbsp;

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Silver Spoon

Are you even baking if your kitchen isn’t covered in icing sugar? A staple ingredient for all baking when whipping up deliciousness.
We love Silver Spoon Icing Sugar as it is the only sugar homegrown in the East of England using sugar beets.
This fine, refined white icing sugar, helps blend the fluffiest of buttercream icing to top your cupcakes and fill your Victoria Sponges.&nbsp;
It is so versatile that with this tiniest touch of water it can transform into to smooth velvety icing to flood ice your biscuits or drizzle over your cakes. With its crisp white finish, it is the perfect blank canvas to colour, flavour and personalise to suit your individual baking style.

Silver Spoon Icing Sugar

Cacao powder

Nielsen-Massey

Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract - the secret ingredient to guarantee that every bake has the x-factor. A drop here, a dash there, this Vanilla Extract is bursting with all the flavour and aroma of vanilla pods.
A showstopper on its own or the perfect partner to compliment other ingredients or flavours vanilla is the ultimate flavour enhancer. Savoury or sweet. Cake, cupcakes, buttercream and indulgent treats, this is a must-have ingredient in your kitchen.
What is the difference between vanilla extract and vanilla essence? Well, this extract is derived solely from hand-picked vanilla pods sourced from the finest growing regions of Mexico, Tahiti and Madagascar and entered in a cold extraction process extracting the vanilla from pod, preserving of 300 flavour compounds. For that reason, we always recommend extract instead of the more artificial Vanilla essence to achieve the scrummiest of flavours.

Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract

Just because you are avoiding dairy doesn't mean you have to miss out on delicious chocolate buttercream. A perfect for topping dairy free chocolate cupcakes. 

Dairy Free Vegan Chocolate Buttercream Recipe

In a bowl beat together the Icing Sugar, Butter and Cacao Powder.

Add the Vanilla Extract and mix until blended.&nbsp;

This buttercream should make enough to ice 12 or more cupcakes or a&nbsp;large sponge cake. Would be the ideal topping for&nbsp;vegan chocolate cupcakes.

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Yummy! Added a little more cocoa powder and a touch of oat milk, utterly delicious. Who needs dairy anyway!!!

I substituted 20g if icing sugar with cocoa for a richer darker buttercream. Delicious and easy.

Perfect ratio of butter and icing sugar.  Delicious!

Really nice buttercream, just had to add 3tsp of oat milk to get it a piping consistency.

Great simple vegan buttercream, lovely taste and holds its shape. Thank you

Dairy Free Vegan Chocolate Buttercream

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