Quick recipe: Chocolate fudge icing
This is an old family secret - the perfect fudge icing for both filling and topping a good chocolate cake. Enjoy!
You will need
- 5 oz of butter
- 5 oz of icing sugar, sifted
- 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoons of milk
(If you’re a proper choccy monster use double - I tend to make half as much again.)
Method
Slowly and gently melt the butter in a pan (skim it if you want to to remove excess salt and impurities).
Add the cocoa and up the heat, cooking it gently for a minute or so, then add the icing sugar.
Add the milk gradually (you’ll know when to do this, as the icing sugar will eventually make your cocoa and butter the consistency of cement) and keep stirring until you have a glossy, smooth paste.
Allow it to cool, and then use half to sandwich your cake together, and half for the topping. It looks fabulous and tastes divine.
Posted by Simon on 26 May 2007 at 02:05 PM
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June 2, 2007 : 7:42am
do you know any review sites that review cakes etc..like mcvities muffins,flapjacks,brownies etc…?
June 3, 2007 : 11:26pm
Go to http://www.cakecentral.com - it’s a community of cake decorators, and quite good. Enjoy!
September 4, 2007 : 12:32pm
Question: Can this icing be used with Chocolate Transfers?
November 27, 2007 : 3:54pm
somehow it never got to the consistency of cement so i burned it?!
November 27, 2007 : 4:30pm
I’m assuming that you had the heat up too high, and that the cocoa wasn’t cooked long enough before you added the icing sugar.
I’ve made batches before where the butter doesn’t fully integrate into the mixture, so I’ve ended up pouring it off.
Sorry to hear you had a disaster. Better luck next time.
Oh, and once set, you should be able to place transfers on top.
March 30, 2008 : 12:22am
Can you add chocolate from a packet into it or will it make the sauce taste bad. What is the consitency of the sauce and when it dryes is it still smoothish ?
Thank you
Ashleigh x
March 31, 2008 : 1:21pm
This sauce is a fudge sauce. Adding chocolate from a packet will probably make it go wrong.
When it sets it remains smooth and sticky but with a shiny top layer, so you can ice or decorate it.