chocolate frosting

sillyvixen

anyone know how to make a chocolate frosting using chocolate and other ingredients to make a frosting that can be used hours later for decorating a cake and eaten soon after without setting - i need the idea for a fair trade childrens party we are doing at church on sunday - but want to do my prep beforehand but get the decorating done by the kids just before eating.

any help apreciated:j

motherkitty

Hi Sillyvixen
Don't know whether this is any help to you, it uses cocoa though rather than chocolate. To make a fudgy type icing which doesn't need to be left to set, I melt about 1oz margarine or butter (stork usually) in the microwave for about 30 secs along with 2 or 3 teaspoons of milk. Then I beat in a table spoon of cocoa and enough icing sugar to make a thick fudgy icing. Sorry to be so vague about the quantities but I adapted it from another recipe so just tend to throw in a bit of this and that until it is how I want it. You can add a little vanilla which helps the flavour, or more cocoa to make it more chocolatey. This will make enough to thickly cover the top of a 7 inch cake so it would do quite a few small cakes if that is what you are making. Looks good just swirled over the top, or you can decorate with flake, chocolate buttons etc.
Hope this helps.
MK

sillyvixen

motherkitty wrote: »

Hi Sillyvixen
Don't know whether this is any help to you, it uses cocoa though rather than chocolate. To make a fudgy type icing which doesn't need to be left to set, I melt about 1oz margarine or butter (stork usually) in the microwave for about 30 secs along with 2 or 3 teaspoons of milk. Then I beat in a table spoon of cocoa and enough icing sugar to make a thick fudgy icing. Sorry to be so vague about the quantities but I adapted it from another recipe so just tend to throw in a bit of this and that until it is how I want it. You can add a little vanilla which helps the flavour, or more cocoa to make it more chocolatey. This will make enough to thickly cover the top of a 7 inch cake so it would do quite a few small cakes if that is what you are making. Looks good just swirled over the top, or you can decorate with flake, chocolate buttons etc.
Hope this helps.
MK

thanks i will try that tomorrow - i have cocoa.

squeaky

If you need more you might like to try this one from the be-ro website...

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