Mom's Chocolate Decorator Frosting
"This is the frosting Mom used on birthday cakes. Nothing fancy, but posted for posterity. It is easy to pipe, but it's not like the shortening-based frostings you would get from a bakery. Double recipe for 3 layer cake."
Original is 12 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (36.2 g)
- Calories 131.6
- Total Fat - 5.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.2 g
- Cholesterol - 13.4 mg
- Sodium - 45.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 22.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0 g
- Sugars - 22.2 g
- Protein - 0.1 g
- Calcium - 1.9 mg
- Iron - 0 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt chocolate and water in the microwave, or on the stove like Mom. Let cool.
Step 2
Cream butter and sugar with chocolate.
Step 3
Frost cake immediately.
Tips
No special items needed.