Yesterday i made a steamed chocolate cake recipe, after making that, i thought of making a quick glaze to pour over it. When i searched in google i came across this recipe. it was so simple, i tried it immediately and it turned out to be so fudgy and so yummy.
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Cooking Time : 1 mins
Makes : 1 cup of icing
Ingredients:
Unsalted Soft Butter – 2 tblspn
Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar – 3/4 cup sifted
Cocoa Powder – 1.5 tblspn to 2 tblspn
Water – 1 tblspn
Sugar – 1.5 tblspn
Method:
Take sugar, butter and water in a sauce pan. Heat on low heat till it is all melted.
Now take icing sugar and cocoa in a bowl and mix well using a whisk.
Add in the chocolate liquid and whisk well. It will get thick and creamy.
Set aside to cool. It will get thicker as it cools.
Use in your cakes.
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| First take butter in a sauce pan |
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| add in little sugar |
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| add in little water |
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| melt it down |
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| now take icing sugar in a bowl |
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| add in cocoa |
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| whisk it really well |
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| pour the melted butter mix in |
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| whisk well |
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| whisk till it is creamy |
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| Now you can see the consistency is very runny |
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| but as it cools, it will get thick |
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| look how thick it has got now |
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| you can use this to ice your cakes, cupcakes, cookies and anything |
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| This frosting or icing is seriously addictive.. |
What a simple frosting recipe Aarthi! Tried it today and it turned out to be amazing! This was my first attempt at frosting a cake. Thanks to you it came out fantastic. My family just loved it. Thanks a lot for sharing the recipe.
Can I let it cool down and then pipe it on cupcakes?
@Anonymous no this will be little bit runny
Aarti ji could u plz post the recipe of moong daal halva on ur page….thanks in advance
@Arneet Rajpalwill share it soon
Hi aarathy, im a big fan of your food blog. I too have a two year old daughter. I made your vanilla cake today and did this frosting. I want to know if I should keep the left over cake on the fridge to use tomorrow or can I keep it in the ac environment?
@Anonymousu can keep it in a air tight container in fridge, next day take it out few hours before serving
Hii..Aarthi wanted to ask you about the icing sugar.. what exact is that can we replace it with normal sugar?
@Vidya Mahendrakarfor frosting u need icing sugar
Can i replace icing sugar with powdered sugar??
Hello Aarthi Ma’am! I do not have electric beatee. Can I use this in checkboard cake? Also, can you please upload the eggless recipe for red velvet cake.