Chocolate Icing

"This icing is the perfect finishing touch-- velevty and oh-so-smooth. (This recipe is from the cookbook "How It All Vegan.")"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
1
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a small saucepan, whisk together the flour and water constantly over medium heat until thick (about the consistency of glue).
  • Be careful not to burn it!
  • Once thick, remove from heat and cool off completely by setting the pot in a slightly larger pan of cold water, or a sink with a bit of cold water.
  • While it's cooling, in a medium bowl, mix together the sweetener, vanilla, margarine, and cocoa powder until well mixed.
  • Add the cooled flour mixture to the bowl and stir together until there are no lumps.
  • Let cool in the fridge for 30-60 minutes-- before using.

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Reviews

  1. I would have never thought to make icing this way! It came out just perfect--and you do need the extra fridge time to thicken it up a bit.
     
  2. Kinda like sweetening up the papier mache mix! Fun recipe. I substituted the sweetener with half white sugar/half icing sugar. I added 4 tbsp of cocoa. I also added half of a brick of cream cheese. (I added it after I had already mixed the entire recipe smooth, so my final product ended up kinda lumpy...but that was OK. I was making a "construction" b'day cake.) Good recipe. Will make again.
     
  3. Great recipe! Made this for my niece who has several food allergies, she loved it! Substituted 6 tablespoons canola oil for margarine since margarine has soy. Used sugar for dry sweetener. Used with Moist White Cake recipe #344115.
     
  4. Great Recipe. I used fat free promise margarine (only 3 TBSP) to make it a fat free icing. I also used 1 cup powdered sugar instead of the dry sweetner. It turned out better than I thought.
     
  5. This was great! I did change the recipe a bit. I used icing sugar instead of a dry sweetner and I used 4 heaping teaspoons of cocoa since we are all chocolate lovers. Everyone who had it loved and my mil asked for the recipe.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Kinda like sweetening up the papier mache mix! Fun recipe. I substituted the sweetener with half white sugar/half icing sugar. I added 4 tbsp of cocoa. I also added half of a brick of cream cheese. (I added it after I had already mixed the entire recipe smooth, so my final product ended up kinda lumpy...but that was OK. I was making a "construction" b'day cake.) Good recipe. Will make again.
     
  2. Great recipe! Made this for my niece who has several food allergies, she loved it! Substituted 6 tablespoons canola oil for margarine since margarine has soy. Used sugar for dry sweetener. Used with Moist White Cake recipe #344115.
     
  3. Great Recipe. I used fat free promise margarine (only 3 TBSP) to make it a fat free icing. I also used 1 cup powdered sugar instead of the dry sweetner. It turned out better than I thought.
     
  4. This was great! I did change the recipe a bit. I used icing sugar instead of a dry sweetner and I used 4 heaping teaspoons of cocoa since we are all chocolate lovers. Everyone who had it loved and my mil asked for the recipe.
     

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