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Enjoy this quick easy chocolate frosting on your next batch of cupcakes, brownies or cake. It’s simply delicious! Use my quick easy chocolate frosting recipe to dress up a simple box mix or as a nice addition to cupcakes made from scratch!
We made yellow box mix cupcakes with this Quick Easy Chocolate Frosting for LuLu’s 7th birthday. They were a huge success and everyone loved the frosting!
*I tried making Whole Foods Yellow Cake Mix from scratch but those didn’t turn out right, so I ended up with back-up box mix 🙁 They were still delicious – thanks in part to the icing! If I had time for baking another batch from scratch, I would have gone with my white chocolate cupcakes.
Quick Easy Chocolate Frosting:
Ingredients:
1 stick butter, softened
3 Cups powdered sugar
1/2 Cup Cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla
5-8 Tbsp half & half (or milk)
Directions:
- Whip butter and vanilla together in mixer until smooth.
- Mix in cocoa and then slowly add in powdered sugar
- Add half & half 1 tbsp at a time until desired consistency is reached (the more half and half the creamier/thinner your frosting will become)
- Frost 1 9in cake or about 24 cupcakes – Note based on a comment: if you use a lot of icing, you may need to make a double batch.
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 3 Cups powdered sugar
- ½ Cup Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 5-8 Tbsp half & half (or milk)
- Whip butter and vanilla together in mixer until smooth.
- Mix in cocoa and then slowly add in powdered sugar
- Add half & half 1 tbsp at a time until desired consistency is reached (the more half and half the creamier/thinner your frosting will become)
- Frost 1 9in cake or about 24 cupcakes
Share your thoughts on this Quick Easy Chocolate Frosting recipe! Do you have a favorite Chocolate Frosting recipe?
You might also like this easy Chocolate Buttercream Icing Recipe!
I must use a ton of frosting, because this recipe only frosted 8 cupcakes. I added more powdered sugar and milk which added some sweetness but it went a bit farther. That said, I thought it was great and I will use it again. Thanks!
Glad you liked the recipe! We must definitely not use the same amount of icing. I frosted an entire batch of cupcakes and still had some leftover. Thanks for letting me know, so I can update the post!
Hi, I tried makig this but the icing was gritty. What are you doing make cocoa powder smooth? Also, is baking cocoa fine (is it what you were using)?
Mine was nice and smooth – not gritty at all. I mixed in my Kitchenaid stand mixer, but a hand mixer should be fine. I do prefer a creamier icing, so I used closer to the 8 T half and half.
I used Trader Joe’s Cocoa Powder – you can see a picture here: http://amzn.to/1Bhrjdw
Put powder sugar and cocoa sifted thru a strainer.Should come out smooth. And the more u mix/whip the frosting somehow expands.. Lol… good luck.
Thanks for sharing your tips!
I’m sorry for the typos. My app isn’t working properly and I can’t see my text!
Just fixed this for a cake & it was really good! Used a little less milk to make it a little thicker..definitely would advise that on cupcakes..but this made plenty for a 9 x 12 cake
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Next time I make it, I’ll try less milk and see what my kiddos prefer.
This is the best frosting ever!! Everybody loves it!! I cut the recipe in half and still had enough for 20 cupcakes with some left over…I guess I use very little frosting. But it was really ‘whippy’ I whipped the heck out of it with my stand mixer and used very little milk. It wasn’t heavy or too thick it was just right. I cut up some strawberries and dipped them in the leftover frosting for a sweet treat another night, which was also a hit. Thanks for sharing this recipe!! 🙂
What is half and half
Half and half is creamer – it’s like a mixture of milk and cream that I also use for coffee. At my grocery stores it actually says half and half.
I was laughing while making this tonight. As I went to grab the powder sugar that I was so sure we had in our pantry, only to find out we only had enough for about a cup (an ordeal that happened to us earlier which resulted in going to the grocery store). Thankfully, I’ve made our own poder sugar a few times. After getting through that laugh at yourself moment, your recipe was a success and was more than enough. Super easy, super smooth and tasted like chocolate frosting. Thank you!
Ha! Story of my life! I’m so glad the frosting turned out well! It was probably even better with the homemade powdered sugar. I’ll have to give it a try.