Fudgy Chocolate Frosting

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Everyone needs a go to frosting. This is mine. Fudgy Chocolate Frosting pipes like a dream and is perfect on both cupcakes and on layer cakes.

My fudgy chocolate frosting mixes with only 6 ingredients, comes together in a few minutes (8 if you use two optional items), and is perfect with all your favorite cakes, cupcakes, or cookies. I can also recommend eating by the spoonful 🙂

The texture of this chocolate frosting is absolutely silky. It’s creamy and fudgy and perfectly chocolatey. Best of all, it’s an easy to mix recipe.

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What do you need to make fudgy chocolate frosting?

Fudgy chocolate buttercream frosting calls for simple, staple ingredients that you probably have on hand. With recipes with this few of ingredients, the quality of each ingredient is so important:

• Butter: I personally like salted butter because I love the salty with the sweet. But this is a personal preference. Use the butter you like.
• Cocoa powder:  Dutch processed or dark cocoa powder will be perfect for this frosting. Hershey’s is a family favorite and easy to find in any grocery store.
• Powdered Sugar: Also known as confectioners sugar, this is the base for most homemade frosting. Powdered sugar sweetens and stiffens your frosting. No sugar no structure, so you need this element to pipe your frosting and so it doesn’t just run down the sides of your cake.
• Heavy Cream: Girl, now is not the time to become calorie conscious. Use the good stuff.
• Espresso Powder: This is optional, but it does add a depth to the chocolate.
• Salt: A pinch of salt will help to cut any excessive sweetness, but if you used the salted butter you should be good here.
• Vanilla Extract: I love clear vanilla extract in all by sweets right now, but any vanilla is fine.
• Honey: this is the surprise ingredient. Don’t skip it.

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Instructions for mixing the frosting:

• Place room temperature butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat with the paddle attachment until creamy. About 3 minutes

• Sift the cocoa powder with the powdered sugar and add the sifted dry ingredients in two additions to the butter and beat until combined, about 2 minutes after each addition.

• Add the honey, vanilla and half the cream. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Then increase speed to medium high. Stream in heavy cream to thin the frosting to the desired consistency.

• Scrape down the bowl and beat the frosting until fluffy.

• Transfer the chocolate frosting to a piping bag or use an offset spatula to frost your favorite cake or cupcake.

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What can you frost with fudgy chocolate frosting?

I don’t know about you, but I think chocolate frosting pretty much goes with every single dessert. Use it on cupcakes, brownies, layer cakes, cookie bars…the list goes on! Here are some ideas to get you started :

• Vanilla Cake
• Sugar Cookie Bars
• Chocolate Cake
• Brownies
• Banana Cake
• Chocolate Cupcakes

And there you have it my dear readers! The best fudgy chocolate frosting you’ll ever have!

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