Chocolate Frosting Recipe
By: John S. Rhodes | Posted: 17th March 2010
A delicious easy Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Summary: Chocolate frosting is simple and easy
to make but everyone always has their little
secrets when making cakes and frosting.
The basic ingredients of frosting are essential
and the secret ingredient is what makes a
chocolate frosting recipe special. This is a
recipe comes from a third generation farm house
in South Africa.
The farm is called Zonderend which means "without
end" which was once a trading post where the
Zulu's and the Voortrekkers used to barter live
stock and produce back in the late eighteen
hundreds before it became an agricultural farm.
And still today the two majestic towering oak
trees which were once the trading post are well
over a hundred and fifty years old still stand
strong and tall
Dark Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
3 cups of refined icing sugar
6 tablespoons of coco powder
6 tablespoons of softened butter
6 tablespoons of Ideal Milk or fresh cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1/2 slab of dark chocolate
Method:
Use a double boiler and melt the ½ slab of dark
chocolate
Sift the icing sugar and coco powder
Mix the butter, icing sugar and coco powder
together in a mixing bowl until it has a creamy
texture
Add the vanilla essence
Take the melted chocolate and fold into the
butter, icing sugar and coco powder mixture
Last of all add the Ideal Milk or cream and fold
it into the mixture
The frosting must have a soft spreading texture
You are now reading ice your rich moist chocolate
cake. Crush some nuts up such as pecans and mix
with some apricot jam and spread onto one of the
halves of the cake then spread a layer of
frosting and put the other half on top Continue
to ice the whole cake and when completed sprinkle
some chopped nuts on top of the cake and add some
cherries.
The owner of Zonderend gave me this recipe to
share with others which was his great, great
Grandmothers recipe. In those times the butter
and cream were made on this farm. You will use
this recipe time and again as it is really
delicious and make a chocolate cake really
special.This article is free for republishing
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