Chocolate Cream Frosting

Date: 2010.01.16 | Category: Baking | Tags: dessert,frosting

I have had quite a few requests for a delicious chocolate cream frosting.  A lot of you add cocoa to a sugar frosting recipe.  Not a bad way to go but I wanted to offer a really rich, fluffy and easy recipe for you.  Here it is!

Ingredients:

6 Tbsp. butter
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. sifted 10x sugar
2 egg whites
3 squares Baker’s unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
2 to 3 Tbsp. milk

Cream together butter, salt, and vanilla.  Add sugar alternately with egg whites, beating well after each addition.  Blend in melted chocolate.  Gradually add milk, small portion at a time, beating until smooth and thick enough to spread.  Spread away!

Remember, either the cake or the frosting should be very sweet.  Not both!  So many people make the mistake of having both and it’s just too much.  Savor the flavors of each by choosing only one to be the super sweet.

xo–me