How to Make Chocolate Icing

How to Make Chocolate Icing The chocolate flavor has been an all-time favorite suitable on any occasion for any sort of dessert be it chocolate pies, cookies, simply ice-creams, brownies, pudding or mousse. Likewise addition of a topping with chocolate icing becomes highly lip-smacking dish. Though the ingredients of preparing chocolate icing is more or less specific, however their preparation could be achieved by more than one method. Most important of all are the precautions and tips one must bear in mind while making chocolate icing. Taking a look at the various ways of putting the ingredients together, that gives copious recipes, gives a fair idea and a number of options to bag your recipe.

The key ingredients required are: Cocoa, Butter (or margarine), Milk, Confectioners or powdered sugar, salt to taste.

To make things easier, it is always a smarter thing to keep all the required ingredients and the dishes to be used ready.
In a large bowl, mix half a cup of cocoa and quarter cup butter with a spatula. In order to avoid lump or inconsistency through the mixture, butter is a better option than margarine.
You may bring the mixing to a halt when a uniform paste of cocoa and butter is obtained. To this add low fat milk, vanilla essence or extract and a pinch of salt to taste.
These are then subjected to constant stirring and gradual addition of sifted or powdered sugar. Instead of adding whole three cups of sugar for once, it is advisable to add part by part to ensure perfect blending.
Depending upon the consistency required, it is possible to add either milk or sugar. For instance if you would like your chocolate icing to be as creamy as chocolate sauce, addition of milk is recommended. To make it thicker and solid, adding some more sugar helps.

This recipe of making chocolate icing could be time-consuming and might not suit your schedule if you decide to put on the icing at the last moment. In case you are under such a time constrain and want to obtain a chocolate icing within minutes, a quickie recipe of chocolate icing could become much loved one.

For this, cocoa, milk and sugar need to be mixed in a stove able container.
Heat the contents and bring to boil and remove from stove.
Without allowing it to cool, add the required amounts of butter and vanilla extract until it gets to a spreadable consistency.
You may either opt to pour it hot or allow it to set at room temperature and spread on your cake with a spatula.

If making a simple chocolate icing on your cake has become obsolete, there are options always open to be innovative. To illustrate, adding some chocolate chips in your chocolate icing recipe could fetch you crunchy chocolate chip icing.

Likewise, replacing butter or margarine with cream cheese and mixing the contents till it gets fluffy could fetch you a chocolate cream that you could spread in between a double layered chocolate cake.

Watch a video instruction on how to make chocolate icing