How to Make Chocolate Frosting

If you love cooking and baking, by now, you must have mastered the recipes of cakes and cupcakes. Well, if you want to be an expert in it, you might as well learn how to decorate cakes and cupcakes. Using frosting is one of the most popular cake decorating methods and is loved by adults as well as children. So, if you love chocolate flavored frosting, here are some easy recipes for the same. You will also come across different combination like chocolate coconut and chocolate buttercream frosting. Take a look.

Making Chocolate Frosting from Scratch
Here is an easy chocolate icing recipe that will be helpful.

Ingredients

• 120 grams of butter
• ½ cups of cocoa
• 2 ½ cups of icing sugar
• 1/3 cups of milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence / extract

Method of Preparation

• Beat the butter to make it creamier in an electric mixer or with hand.
• Add part by part icing sugar and cocoa in the butter and beat continuously to make homogeneous mixture.
• Now add the vanilla essence / extract and milk to make a smooth and light mixture!
• You can use your simple chocolate frosting on cakes, cupcakes or biscuits.

Making Frosting with Chocolate Chips
Wish to make chocolate cake frosting using chocolate chips? Then here is chocolate frosting recipe using chocolate chips.

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 2/3 cups of brown sugar
• 1/3 cups of chocolate chips
• 3 tablespoons of milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence / extract

Method of Preparation

• Soften the butter using a wooden spoon.
• Now boil brown sugar, butter and milk in saucepan for 1 minute
• Remove the mixture from heat. Now and add vanilla and chocolate chips to the mixture.
• Beat the mixture until creamy and ready to spread.

How to Make Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Here is a recipe on buttercream chocolate frosting which takes not more than a few minutes.

Ingredients

• 1/3 cups of softened Butter
• 3 squares of unsweetened chocolate
• 3 cups of confectioners / icing sugar
• 1/4 cups of milk
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla essence / extract

Method of Preparation

• Mix the softened butter, icing sugar and salt in a bowl, and beat together until fluffy.
• Now melt the unsweetened chocolate in a microwave and add to the above-mentioned mixture.
• Now add milk and vanilla essence / extract in this mixture. Mix together until the entire mixture is creamy and light!
• Your chocolate buttercream frosting is ready!

Recipe to Make Chocolate Coconut Frosting
Now that you know how to make the basic chocolate frosting, you can modify it to make different variations. Here is an easy chocolate frosting with coconut recipe.

Ingredients

• 1/3 cups of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 6 ounces of milk chocolate chips
• 1 cup of sweetened coconut flakes
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 3/4 cups of evaporated milk

Method of Preparation

• Mix sugar and cornstarch in evaporated milk and boil over medium heat.
• Stir continuously so as no lumps are formed. Remove when boiled.
• Now add chocolate chips and butter in it. Stir until chocolate is melted.
• Now add coconut flakes and stir to form a homo mixture.
• Your chocolate coconut frosting is ready!

I hope these simple recipes were helpful to you. So the next time, you bake a cake or a batch of cupcakes, do not forget to decorate them with this interesting frosting and enjoy your dessert! Bon Appetit!