Comments on: Quick recipe: Chocolate fudge icing

By: Helen Brittain

Helen Brittain — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:54:43 +0000

Try chocolate ganache instead of butter icing. Use 300 ml double cream and 200g dark chocolate. Put double cream in a saucepan and add broken dark chocolate. Heat gently until chocolate melts into cream, keep stirring with wooden spoon until thick chocolate ganache forms. Add a couple of tablespoons of sifted icing sugar, beat again and then leave for a couple of hours until thick. You can then spread over and on top of chocolate cake.

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:13:15 +0000

Hmmm, I’ve just tried this and it really hasn’t worked so far – are the quanities right? Seem to have a brown mass floating in a yellow, skin-burning liquid!!

By: Kayboo

Kayboo — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:54:53 +0000

This is great athough it looks good i was dissapiointed by the texture and taste but overall i loved it ! :)

By: shauna

shauna — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:01:20 +0000

yummy!!! so easy to make! :)

By: David Masters

David Masters — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:39:56 +0000

4tbsp = 60ml
(1 tbsp=15mil)

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:27:01 +0000

Can this be frozen? I’m having a baby just before christmas and it would be great to be able to pop this out of the freezer to frost a frozen chocolate sponge for when we have visitors.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:59:34 +0000

all i need to know is how much is 4 tablespoons in mL

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:47:23 +0000

I have a few questions about this. Does it get crusty if left out? Can it be left out and not drip or fall off of the cake? Can you whip it after and get a fluffy texture? Is it good if not refrigerated for a few hours?

I’m not very talented with frostings. I would love to find one that will work for me. I’m an excellent baker, I just can’t get down frostings, especially chocolate ones. I want a dark glossy chocolate frosting and this sounds good.

Any help or tips would be very much appreciated.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:00:17 +0000

well i made this last week and it came out lovely, but now i have visitors coming and i made it, i feel, ive done something wrong, so i looked on other recipes for the same thing and they use quarter of butter/marg to icing sugar, am i going mad? ;)

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:46:55 +0000

just made this recipe and its absolutely beautiful