Chocolate Butter
Recipe by LifeStyle FOOD
Fantastic butter to spread on pancakes, crepe, muffins and toast!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 30g dark chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
- pinch of salt
- 2 tbs chopped nuts of your choice (optional)
Method
- Soften the butter by leaving it out of the fridge and bringing it to room temperature. Melt the chocolate in a small bowl over simmering water. Let the chocolate mixture cool before adding to the butter.
- Lightly cream the softened butter by hand (a wooden spoon or fork works best), or beat it with an electric beater.
- Add the cooled chocolate, icing sugar, vanilla essence, salt and nuts. Mix all ingredients together until well-combined.
- Let mixture stand for an hour to marry the flavours.
- Pile the butter into cling film or waxed paper, shape into a sausage and roll the film around the sausage, twist both ends and refrigerate until firm.
- Just before serving, cut butter into disks, remove film from discs and place atop warm food at the last minute and let it melt.
Notes & Tips
If 1 cup of icing sugar is too sweet for you, feel free to reduce the amount.
