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Chocolate Frosting

Cakes - Icing - -

INGREDIENTS

1 cup sugar
6 T corn starch
4 T cocoa
1/2 t salt
2 T oil
1 cup water
1/2 t vanilla

METHOD

Mix sugar, cornstarch, salt, and cocoa in a medium sauce pan. Whisk in the water. Heat over medium until it gets thick and starts to boil. Boil for 1-2 minutes (make sure you don't boil too long, or it will set like toffee). Remove from heat and stir in oil and vanilla. Cool and spread on cooled cake.

Enjoy!

posted by Dana

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[Reply] - [link] - Mocha - [Colleeny] - 2006/08/28 - 14:57

I made this frosting replacing the 1 cup water with 1 cup strong coffee. Everbody loved it!

[Reply] - [link] - Fun fun fun! - [jess6] - 2008/07/18 - 14:20

The recipe does not convey how ridiculously fun this recipe is to make! The transition from liquid to semisolid is positively delightful. I bake just so I have an excuse to make this frosting. Oh, and it's tasty, too.

(Yes, I realize how nerdy this sounds!)

[Reply] - [link] - Not Impressed - [Alayth] - 2009/02/19 - 18:47

I made this icing, following the recipe exactly, but the icing turned out a liquid. After it had cooled and was still a liquid, I put it in the freezer hoping that further cooling it might work, but that still didn't work. I ended up adding a bunch of icing sugar and some more corn starch, then tried boiling it again (for longer this time). After it had cooled, it was still a liquid, and I ended up using that on my cake. It didn't taste bad, but it was messy and annoying.

I would not use this recipe again.