Chocolate Frosting Recipe

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.

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