Delish & Fluffy Chocolate Frosting

Not bad. Very fluffy and not too sweet. I had a similar problem with the cocoa not mixing well, which gave the icing a light brown grainy look. Also, it didn't taste as chocolatey as I had hoped, and I needed very chocolatey because I was icing a hazelnut cake. However, I doubled the cocoa and it turned out perfectly =). It is a nice mid brown and tastes wonderful, and now the cake tastes like nutella =D. It made, I would say, about 3 to 4 cups of frosting, which was the perfect amount to frost a small one layer cake.<br/><br/>2 Tips:<br/> -MAKE SURE YOUR BUTTER IS SOFTENED!! If it isn't, this recipe will take a lot longer than 5 minutes.<br/> -If you want a softer icing, then add the 1 and a half cups of icing sugar, but if you want the consistency to ice a cake, you need all 2 cups.

YUM! Just like the other reviewers say--not to sweet, very creamy like a mousse. For a layer cake I probably would make extra so I could pile it on. (Worked great for a 9X12 pan). The tips from MobeanBaker are great. I didn't have a problem after adding the butter mixture, but my butter was room-temp to start. With these few ingredients I always have on hand, and with the fact that it was SO easy, this will be a favorite of mine!

This was really yummy-not too sweet and felt homemade. My fiance and I are both frosting snobs (we usually don't like any...they are always too sweet or a weird consistency...it's one of the reasons we rarely eat cake) but we both really liked this! A FEW TIPS: 1. Make sure to soften the butter to spreadable (and then let it cool a bti) because otherwise it is difficult to blend the chocolate portion into the egg whites. 2. When I followed this and just 'folded' in the chocolate, the frosting was almost runny-sortof pudding consistency. This was great for spreading on top, but it ran all down the sides of my layer cake and didn't stick, so I just whipped it a whole bunch more (to get peaks) with an electric mixer and that worked fine. 3. Also I'm not sure what the other reviewer did, but I put some in between layers and all over and still had about 1 1/2c left over

This tasted very good but made very little (I did not have enough to frost a birthday cake that I had made). Also since this is supposed to be a chocolate frosting I guess I expected a real chocolate brown but this is a very light colored pale brown. Otherwise this was easy to make and the kids enjoyed licking the beaters clean.

I can't say how it is on the cake yet, b/c the cake is for a party tomorrow. However, since I was frosting a 9x13 in the pan, I had a bit leftover, so...mmm. This is more rich than sweet, very creamy. Mine had little specks of the cocoa that didn't dissolve, but it looks more appetizing than the store-bought stuff.