Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa Powder and Powdered Sugar
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This is a simple chocolate frosting recipe that you’ll use over and over again. Chocolate Frosting with
This is not a mind-blowing original recipe. I’ve been making it for years and years. It is a basic Chocolate Frosting recipe that you need to have in your arsenal. Plus, it’s my favorite. If I could, I would eat spoonful after spoonful of it straight from the pan….oh, wait, I did do that!
Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa Powder and Powdered Sugar
Chocolate Frosting with
This recipe is also easily adaptable. If you have a large sheet pan of brownies, you may want to double the recipe. For just a few cookies, you may want to half the recipe.
It really is a delectable 5-minute frosting that goes great on cakes and cupcakes. Add an additional 2 tablespoons of milk to make it into an easy pouring sauce for ice cream and bread pudding.
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Chocolate Frosting tips
One tip you must remember when making this icing recipe is to sift your sugar. Otherwise, you’ll have lumps and will have to stir A LOT, to get them out. I find that lumps are nearly impossible to get out once the sugar is stirred into the mixture.
Another tip—okay, I know this is two—is to use real
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*The calorie count is for the whole recipe.
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Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa Powder and Powdered Sugar
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter salted or unsalted
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder I prefer this brand
- ⅓ cup whole milk whole or 2%
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract preferred brand
- 3 and ½ cup powdered sugar (aka confectioners) sifted
Instructions
- Sift sugar.
- Heat butter in a small pan on medium heat, do not let butter get brown.
- When butter is melted, whisk in cocoa, milk, and vanilla. Add sugar 1/2 cup at a time, whisking after each addition.
- Remove from heat, after all the sugar has been added.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Immediately pour over cake.
- If icing is too thin, add additional sifted sugar 1/4 cup at a time until desired thickness or sit it in the refrigerator a few minutes. Take it out and whisk it until creamy again.
- Frosting will thicken as it cools, but it’ll be harder to spread.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Love for chocolate can never end for me. So, yes, this recipe is for me. I bake cakes a lot, and I made this chocolate frosting for the very first time. Eventually, I put it on the top of the cake as well as I ate the leftover frosting, which made me say “wow.” Thanks!
This recipe is really nice. the taste is heavenly
This is the best chocolate frosting I have ever tasted.
Can I melt the butter in the microwave & make the icing in a bowl instead of in a pot on the stove?
Yes, you can.
Easy and fast and great tasting. My go to recipe for chocolate cake icing and I have used a lot of different recipes.
Is it really THAT good? Cause I’m using this for business Wednesday let’s see how my costumers like it!
My mother made this, she’d make 2batches at one time. One for her and one for the cake! So happy to see the recipe hasn’t been list
Is the butter in your recipes salted butter or unsalted butter? Thanks!
I use salted, professional bakers recommend using unsalted. It reacts the same in the cake so it basically comes down to which you like the taste of better. Using unsalted just tastes bland to me.
I have always had difficulty making icing for my cakes. Spreading it was always done badly. This recipe was easy to make, easy to pour over the cake, looked decorative and tasted great! I had planned to scrape out the pan later, but someone beat me to it. Next time I am including a spoonful of instant coffee! Thank you!
OMG…this is the best frosting and so quick and easy…Thank You so much