Mocha Butter Cream Recipe

How to Make Mocha Butter Cream

This is a cream filling for cakes.

Ingredients:

• 2 egg yolks
• 75g of icing sugar
• 2 or 3 tablespoons of instant coffee
• 2 tablespoons of water (milk or rum!)
• 75g of unsalted butter

Method:
Beat the egg yolks in with the icing sugar until pale and creamy. Carry on beating the mixture over boiling water until the cream has thickened.

Then dissolve the coffee in the hot water two tablespoons of instant coffee in two tablespoons of water (you can use milk or rum instead of water!) Then beat well into the egg mixture.

Remove from the heat and stir in the butter (while still warm) in small pieces and then beat until well blended. And there you have a delicious mocha butter cream! Enjoy.