by Diana Rattray
This easy chocolate frosting is an excellent choice when you need to frost a cake in a hurry. If you have some cocoa, butter, and powdered sugar, you can make this frosting. Use this frosting to spread on vanilla cupcakes, a chocolate cake, or these peanut butter cupcakes.
PrintCreamy Chocolate Frosting
This chocolate frosting is surprisingly easy to fix and wonderful on a cake or cupcake. It’s made with cocoa.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 2
- Total Time: 12 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Category: Chocolate, Frosting, Cakes, Cupcakes
Ingredients
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- 5 tablespoons butter (softened)
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cups powdered sugar
- 5 to 6 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat.
- Add the cocoa powder to the melted butter and stir until smooth.
- Transfer the cocoa and butter mixture to a medium mixing bowl.
- Sift 2 1/2 cups of the powdered sugar.
- With an electric mixer on low speed, beat in about 1 1/4 cups of the powdered sugar along with 3 tablespoons of the milk. Beat in another 1 1/4 cups of powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons of milk. Add more milk or powdered sugar if needed for consistency.
- The recipe makes enough to frost arectangular 1-layer or 2-layer cake.
