Dark Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate frosting is to die for, when its topped on a rich, creamy dark chocolate cake, and you are the only one to enjoy it. It is undoubtedly the most tempting and the most attracting thing in a cake. Listed below are some of the tastiest dark chocolate frosting and cake frosting recipes.

Dark Chocolate Frosting Recipe

• Take 4 sections of sugarless baking chocolate in a pan and put in on a low flame.
• Melt the broken chocolate and ¼ cup of butter with ¼ cup of milk and a pinch of salt and keep stirring it till you get a thick and smooth paste.
• Now you add 2½ cups of powdered sugar with ½ a tea spoon of vanilla extract and beat this mixture till it turns thick enough to spread on a 9 x 13 inch cake.
• This dark chocolate frosting can also be spread on dough nuts, pan cakes, cup cakes or any other dish of your choice.

Creamy Chocolate Frosting Recipe

• In one bowl, add 2¾ cups of confectioner's sugar and some baking cocoa. Mix well and let it set for about 5 minutes.
• Take another bowl and add about 5 tablespoons of butter, 4 tablespoons of evaporated milk and gradually beat this mixture.
• Add the vanilla extract and then again beat it until the batter is light and fluffy. You can decide the consistency of the frost, as per your choice.
• Then you mix the two mixtures together and your yummy creamy chocolate frosting is ready to be enjoyed.

Dark Chocolate Frosting for Cakes

For a mouth-watering dark chocolate frosting cake, there can be nothing better than a rich creamy dark chocolate frosting. So read on for the secret of cocoa power.

• Melt about 110 g of salted butter and 160 g of dark chocolate in a sauce pan, until it turns smooth, and then whisk it with any syrup of your choice along with 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
• Whisk 200 g of icing sugar, gradually, and then add ¾ cup of sour cream to blend it well.
• Add a small amount of hot water, a spoon at a time, and stir well for 15 minutes.
• Stand this mixture for about half an hour, till it can be spread and then it is ready to be a delicious dark chocolate cake frosting.

Some of the best dark chocolate frostings have almost the same recipes with a few changes in flavor done by adding some fruit syrups or vegetable juices like sweet corn. They can make a very big difference in the tastes. Regional dark chocolate frosting like the frosting made in France or Italy or the Great Britain are gaining a large audience throughout the world. Children love chocolates but giving them dark chocolates which consist almost 35% cocoa and at least 10% of alkaloids, can prove harmful for them.

To enjoy chocolate in its most raw form or lindt form, which consists about 70-85% of cocoa, it's advisable to mix it with other supplements such as milk or cream to reduce its toxicity. This can be easily done by making dark chocolate frosting and spreading them on a healthy cake of any flavor or a pan cake, or even an ordinary breakfast so that it does not prove harmful for the body. Chocolates can be injurious, only if they are eaten out of proportion, as they have sugar and milk which contain certain fatty substances that adhere to our intestines and increase our fat levels.

Eventually I, being a die-hard chocolate fan would say that, the cocoa bean is a legend which will never fade with time so for all you chocoholics there, make the most you can out of dark chocolate and come up with some of your own chocolate cake recipes. Baking cakes is fun, so, as long as there is chocolate, keep baking.