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.
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 near impossible to get out once the sugar is stirred into the mixture.
Another tip, ok, I know this is two, is to use real
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Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa Powder and Powdered Sugar
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- ¼ cup butter salted or unsalted, I use this
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder I prefer this brand
- ⅓ cup milk whole or 2%
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract preferred brand
- 3 and ½ cup confectioners sugar 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.
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
First time for everything.
Great with white cake or brownies
Cherie
Mine came out hard as it cools. Not good! ((Sigh!) Maybe I shouldnt heat everything from the ingredients next time. Just mix all the ingredients together. Well, maybe!
How come u have to heat it, cant u just melt butter an mix together?
Why can’t you just use plain granulated sugar for this ? Does it help in the thickness to use powdered sugar ?
Granulated sugar would be ‘gritty’
This was the easiest frosting to make. I used it to frost a bundt cake. My kids loved it.
Can I coat toffee with this, if so will it harden?
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Mine came out a little harder d not really creamy. Did I overlook?
Looking for coffee cake chocolate frosting. Have you ever tried a bit of coffee in this?
I have not, but it would be delicious. Replace some of the liquid with cold coffee depending on how strong of a coffee flavor you want.
This recipe is exactly what I was looking for. My mother used to make this icing with coffee, and I forgot all about it. I made it with 1/2 milk and 1/2 brewed coffee, so it has a faint coffee taste. And yes, it is delicious!
oh gosh! Coffee sounds great!
I’m looking for a chocolate frosting that’s cooked stove top. Pour it over the cake, It cools to a slightly hardened (crack) stage. Old church sister used to make it all the time. That’s all I remember of it. I regret I never got the recipe from her.
From the looks of the picture, I think I found it in your post for “Chocolate Coca-Cola cake” or “Diet Dr Pepper® Texas Sheet Cake”. I’ll try both!😊
I make this kind of frosting. Pour over and it hardens as it cools.
My grandmother used to make that kind of frosting. I have been looking for it for years. I remember cocoa, Crisco, Milk and sugar…. But I remember her putting it on the cake really quick because it would get hard, like a fudge stage hard..OMGoodness. On yellow cake was the best. I hope this is it 🙂
My mother made the same kind. Regretfully, i didnt get her recipe before she passed away. I’ll try this one.
Isn’t that the same as gnache?
Not the same. Ganache is made with heavy cream just to boiling stage then poured over chocolate chips.
How long will this frosting last in the fridge? It’s delicious, just made it. First time ever making frosting. I hope the cake turns out well
4 or 5 days
Thanks for the recipe. My grandma (who died at age 103 in 2010) used to make the best little chocolate cake with a frosting like this. I’m looking online for comparable recipes because although my cousin and our grandma wrote these recipes down, they aren’t necessarily accurate – she grew up on a farm in North Dakota where everything was done literally by hand and by feel – from the pie crust dough to the oven temp. My mom and i attempted this cake and frosting 15 years ago… it’s time for me to try again!
I understand!! My Granny was the same way. She made a dessert she called a Peach Roll that was absolutely amazing and I can’t get it right for the life of me.
Can I use a hand mixer instead of a whisk ?
Yes you can
Linda, We made this when I was a child. Mother always called it 3,6,9 icing. It is great stuff especially if you are lucky enuf to get to lick the pan clean. Thanks for putting it online….fond memories (this is great on Mayonnaise Cake)
I don’t have any milk but I have sweetened condensed milk. Can I use it in place of regular milk?
Yes, you can