A rich and luscious icing made of cocoa and margarine sweetened with icing sugar, the chocolate butter cream for cakes is a fabulous tool that can immensely boost the visual appeal and taste of a cake. The intense cocoa flavour of this icing and its creamy melt-in-the-mouth smoothness are sure to steal your heart. Covering cakes is the first step of decorating or frosting the cake, so here is a step by step procedure with pictures that will guide you in-how to cover cakes and you can also use this chocolate butter cream to decorate cakes, cupcakes and pastries using a piping bag with a nozzle of your choice, as in peppermint cupcake.