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Homemade Chocolate Frosting (Guest Post)

March 10, 2015 by Carole Burkhard 5 Comments

Homemade chocolate frosting is surprisingly easy to make. And, this recipe for homemade chocolate frosting doesn’t require that you melt chocolate bits over a bath of boiling water on your stove top! Just a few ingredients from your pantry and refrigerator are all that you need to make a chocolate frosting that is creamy and delicious.

Whipped together in minutes, this recipe for homemade chocolate frosting can be adjusted to the thickness you need for your baking project. If you want it light and fluffy to spread over a sheet cake, add more heavy cream. If you want it thicker to frost cupcakes using a pastry bag, use less heavy cream.

Either way, this recipe for homemade chocolate frosting is the perfect amount for a 9-inch by 13-inch sheet cake or a normal 2-layer round cake or 2 dozen cupcakes.

If you need a thicker frosting for fancy cupcakes, just decrease the amount of heavy cream adding the heavy cream one tablespoon at a time until you’ve reached your desired consistency. Scoop this homemade chocolate frosting into a pastry bag (or a homemade pastry bag, made from a gallon plastic storage bag with the end snipped off) and you are ready to pipe it onto 2 dozen cupcakes in a fancy, swirly fashion.

Whatever “application” you use homemade chocolate frosting on (cakes, cupcakes, sandwich cookies, brownies), your family will beg you not to buy canned frosting again!

Homemade Chocolate Frosting

Homemade Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients:

  • 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), softened to room temperature
  • 3 1/2 cups powdered (confectioner’s) sugar
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup heavy cream (depending on consistency needed of Homemade Chocolate Frosting)

Directions:

  1. Measure powdered sugar, cocoa and salt into a bowl. Mix together gently with a wire whisk.
  2. In a separate deep-sided mixing bowl, add butter and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy.
  3. Reduce speed, add vanilla and powdered sugar mixture a cup at a time, along with a few tablespoons of heavy cream.
  4. Add a few more tablespoons of heavy cream and beat until combined.
  5. Scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula and add a few more tablespoons of heavy cream.
  6. Increase mixer speed to medium, beating until fluffy. Add more cream, if needed, for desired consistency.

Note: I used all 3/4 cup of heavy cream for this recipe. But, if you want a stiffer frosting for your cake or cupcakes, add heavy cream by tablespoons, beating until well-combined until you reach your desired consistency.

Makes approximately 3 cups.

For more easy frosting recipes, check out our whole collection,
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Carole Burkhard
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Carole is the content creator and photographer of the blog Toot Sweet 4 Two.A lifestyle blog, with a heavy emphasis on recipes, Carole writes about many things - elder care, emergency preparedness, travel, parties and tablescapes, other bloggers, occasional craft projects and more. A self-taught home cook, Carole cooks every day (sometimes twice a day) and loves to experiment and create something new.Married to her recipe "tester" husband Charlie for more than 25 years, they live in San Diego County, California and have a very spoiled Snowshoe Siamese cat, a boy named Coco.
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  1. Frances Gulash says

    March 10, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    I love my small knives, use them for eveything

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  2. Frances Gulash says

    March 10, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    I love my Ninja blender

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    • TheBestDessertRecipes says

      March 10, 2015 at 1:48 pm

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  3. Peter Balchunas says

    March 16, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    How can I save this recipe?

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    • TheBestDessertRecipes says

      March 16, 2015 at 4:20 pm

      Hi Peter, We suggest that you go to the page and highlight the text, then right-click on it. You’ll get a window that gives you the option to “copy.” Do that, and then paste the text into a word document. You should be able print that document that way. Another option is to highlight exactly what you would like to be printed. Then, select “print” from your drop-down menu, and change your print range from “all” to “selection.” Hope this helps!

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