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Chocolate Frosting
What you need:
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons corn starch
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
What you do:
1. Mix sugar, cornstarch, salt, and cocoa in a medium sauce pan. Whisk in the water.
2. Heat over medium until it gets thick and starts to boil. Boil for 1-2 minutes. (Make sure you don't boil too long, or it will set like taffy.)
3. Remove from heat and stir in oil and vanilla. Cool and spread on cooled cake. Enjoy!
Preparation Time:
10 min
Cooking Time:
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
This was simple and quick, and easy to spread, but I didn't care for the taste. Tasted more like a bad pudding than a frosting.
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it turned out like pudding. :(
You either put to much water in or you didn't cook it long enough. Keep stirring it with a whisk and keep picking up the whisk and see when it makes some peaks then take it off the fire immediately.
But you do have to be careful if you do cook it to long it does become unspreadable.
it turned out like pudding. :(
I only got one more thing to say about this make up a vanilla frosting as well similar to this. This is my chocolate frosting recipe for all my cakes. I also freeze this and we eat it like chocolate ices.
superlicious!!!! (o and its on the super moist choco cake and i sprinkled soem coconut over it..!
I love this recipe. Only thing to remember when making it is to reaaallly make sure you don't let it thicken too much! And it thickens really quick, so be careful. Otherwise it's perfect : )
And one more thing....DO NOT use this as a vanilla frosting recipe!! I left out the cocoa and added a splash of lemon juice. That seemed harmless, but what I got was a pot of stuff that tasted good, but looks a lot like rubber cement. Anyone remember those SNL comercials for Crystal Gravy?? Yeah--think Crystal Frosting. Ewwww. Any hints on why it turned from white to translucent at the last minute??
This was the first homemade frosting attempt ever for me, and can I just say it was a very very fantastic experience!! I was wisking away for a few minutes thinking that the pot of soupy chocolate was ruined. All of a sudden--POOF--it is perfect frosting consistency!! Excellent taste and beautiful color!! I added the vanilla at the end but left out the oil...don't see the need for this at all. Thanks so much for an AMAZING recipe--and yes, I too agree that it is way better than the store-bought kinds!
this frosting is perfect! made it for the first time tonight, and loved it, very easy to make
5 stars!
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