Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting

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Silky smooth and super chocolaty, this fudge frosting is perfect for piping out designs on cakes and cupcakes. Of course is spreads like a dream too, make a batch and see for yourself!

This super fudgy frosting that is perfect for piping and is ready to decorate your layer cakes, cupcakes and cookies. This chocolate frosting recipe makes a luscious chocolate frosting that has a bit of sheen and is silky smooth. It’s easy to make and delicious to eat too!

This is my new favorite chocolate frosting! I have shared a few over the years. Chocolate buttercream and chocolate sweetened condensed milk frosting are both fabulous.

Then there’s the fudgy sweetened condensed milk icing that is super delicious but is more for spreading and dipping and not good for pipping decorations. It’s made from just a few simple ingredients: melted chocolate, condensed milk and butter.

This frosting combines the best of both worlds. It has a full cup of cocoa in it for a rich chocolate flavor.

If you choose to make it with coffee, the flavor is even more intense. Don’t worry, it doesn’t taste like coffee. I just gives great depth of flavor to the chocolate.

Either way, it is silky smooth and a dream to decorate with.  It also spreads fabulously smooth.

One batch makes enough to generously frost 24 cupcakes, possibly 36 if you don’t pile it high.  It is also plenty to fill, cover and decorate your favorite cake.

Cupcake Ideas

We used ours to top some devilishly good chocolate cupcakes. We decorated some like footballs, did some with swirls and Little Dude and I decorated some like turkeys Thanksgiving as well.

Or use it to make some monkey themed cupcakes. We used them as LD’s daycare birthday cake one year.

We also have a fun Christmas theme cupcake with fudge frosting coming soon! (Check out the Rudolph cupcakes here)

We are definitely getting in the holiday spirit and the more fudge the better!

More favorite dessert recipes:

Shiny fudge frosting is made in a double boiler. It includes sour cream, heavy cream and plenty of chocolate. There’s no icing sugar, but it comes out smooth and with a bit of a shine.

Of course you can make one of my favorite cake recipes for this frosting. It would be perfect on homemade butter cake, my mom’s favorite birthday cake.

My favorite chocolate cake recipe is devilishly good chocolate cake. It is super soft, moist and so easy to make.

Frequently Asked Questions

Tips and tricks:

• If you are in a hurry (or your kitchen is warm from baking) you can speed up getting pipable frosting by putting it in the fridge for 10-20 minutes. Stir it every 5 minutes or so until you have the right consistency.
• This frosting spreads great and pipes like a dream.
• As the frosting sits, it does form a light crust. That makes transportation and storage easier!
• The extra is fabulous between two Graham crackers.
• If you want a dark chocolate fudge frosting, use special dark cocoa powder or dutch processed cocoa powder.

If you are a frosting fanatic like me, check out my Frosting 101. It goes through the different types of frosting and links to all sorts of delicious recipes!

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