Electric Mixer with Paddle Attachments - Essential for mixing buttercreams efficiently and achieving a smooth consistency.
Silicone Baking Mats - Useful for lining baking sheets or pans to ensure non-stick surfaces when making cakes or cupcakes required as part of the buttercream assembly process.
Digital Kitchen Scale - Accurate measurements are crucial in baking, ensuring your ingredients are precisely measured for consistency and taste.
Double Boiler Set - Perfect for melting chocolate or butter without burning them, often a step in making mocha-flavored elements of the buttercream.
Cake Turntable - Facilitates easy icing of cakes and decorating work by providing smooth rotation access.
Piping Bags with Tips - Essential for decorating and adding a professional finish to your mocha buttercream creations, whether piping onto cupcakes or filling cake layers.
Offset Spatula - Useful in spreading the buttercream smoothly on cakes or for creating textured designs.
Digital Food Scale - Similar to a kitchen scale but specifically designed for precise ingredient measurement, crucial for recipe accuracy.
Stainless Steel Whisk Set - Important for mixing and incorporating air into the buttercream base or other components like egg whites in some variations of mocha-based recipes.
Stand Mixer with Paddle Attachments - Another alternative to an electric mixer, useful for making buttercreams at scale or when batch sizes increase.
2 cups sugar, divided
3/4 cup water
6 large egg whites at room temperature 30 minutes
2 tablspoons plus 1 teaspoon instant-espresso powder
1 tablspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 sticks (1 1/2 pounds) unsalted butter, cut into tablspoon pieces and softened
6 ounces fine-quality 60%-cacao bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled to lukewarm
Equipment: a candy thermometer; a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment
a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment
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