If you love baking and decorating cupcakes with fun swirls of icing AND you love having soft skin, then you are going to love making this body butter. It is so pretty when it's all swirled together with big silky ribbony waves of body butter.
The vanilla scent in this is optional, the cocoa butter has a soft and rich scent all its own and leaves skin so silky soft.
Cocoa Vanilla Swirl Body Butter
Ingredients
¼ cup Coconut Oil (solid not liquid)
¼ cup Shea Butter
¼ cup Apricot Oil
1 tbs Rosehip Oil
10 drops Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Bronze Mica
1 tsp Cocoa Powder
Kitchen Crafty Tools
Double Boiler
Spatula
Icing Piping/Decorating Bag with piping piece of your choice
Saran Wrap or Parchment Paper
Stick Blender or Hand held blender
Four clean 4 oz jars
Directions
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Measure the Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Coconut Oil and Apricot Oil into a double boiler. (Save the Rosehip Oil for after everything is whipped). Gently warm until just melted.
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Add the one tablespoon of Rosehip Oil and stir to combine.
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Place the bowl in the refrigerator until it is solid but still a little soft. This takes about 20 to 30 min. Once it is solid, remove it from the refrigerator. If it's too solid, let it warm up a little before mixing.
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Add the vanilla extract and then using a stick blender or hand held blender, whip the body butter oil mixture until it is smooth and well blended. It will change consistency and become light and fluffy as it gets whipped.
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Scoop out one half of the body butter and place in another mixing bowl.
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To one half of the body butter, add the mica powder by gently placing into the body butter and folding it in to combine, avoiding having the powder fly around into the air. Be extra careful and wear a mask for this part. Once mica is mixed in it is safe, we just want to avoid breathing in the mica powder. Whip to fully mix in the mica.
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To the other half of the body butter, add the cocoa powder, whip it into the body butter.
For this next step, each half of the body butter is placed onto a piece of parchment paper (or saran wrap) and then rolled up and placed into the piping bag.
Cut a piece of parchment paper (or saran wrap) that is a little longer than your piping bag. Scoop one of the body butter portions onto the paper lengthwise. Then scoop the next portion along side the first portion, so that they are lined up together. Carefully roll the body butter log together and twist the ends of the log closed. Snip one end. Place the end you have snipped into the piping bag and fill your jars.
Enjoy!
