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Chocolate Fudge Frosting – the Healthier Way!

October 28, 2010 by Laura 112 Comments

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I won’t take up space talking about the loveliness of this recipe because well…it’s CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING. Even if I thought of some cute words to write, you would likely be saying, “Yada, yada…show us the recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” And so…without further ado or ANY ado…here is the fudge frosting recipe made with homemade powdered sugar from sucanat I’ve been promising you…

Chocolate Fudge FrostingYum

1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup cocoa powder
4 (+) cups of powdered sugar (I suggest either making your own powdered sugar from sucanat, or using an unbleached powdered sugar)

Melt butter in a saucepan. Add water to the butter and bring it to a boil. Pour the boiling butter/water into a bowl with the cocoa and powdered sugar. Add vanilla and mix with beaters until thoroughly combined. Add a little more powdered sugar if the frosting is too runny, but keep in mind that it does thicken up just a little bit as it cools.

This recipe makes enough frosting for a two-layer cake or for a big sheet cake or for a nice thick layer of frosting on brownies or a 9×13 inch cake. Actually, it’s almost too much frosting for the brownies and 9×13 inch cake, so save some of it in your fridge and put the leftovers on homemade donuts another time. :)

Here’s our Buttermilk Chocolate Cake recipe! :)

 

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Filed Under: Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: chocolate, fudge frosting, healthy, powdered sugar, sucanat

Comments

  1. Julie says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:07 am

    I love frosting. I can not wait to try it, yum.

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  2. Angie says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:12 am

    This is very lovely looking and yum!!

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  3. Julie G says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Thanks! Can’t wait to try it!

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  4. Carla says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:35 am

    Yummy! Can’t wait until I am done nursing this baby so that I can try it! Chocolate cake at my house in March!

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  5. Baking Mama says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:37 am

    I also do this with sucanat and it makes a “healthier” chocolate frosting … but I can’t seem to get over the GRAINY texture! I can see the grains in your frosting, too. I guess if it doesn’t bother anybody else and you get used to it, then O.K. I guess I’m just spoiled by the smooth frostings we used to have (open a can of Duncan Hines!) )-: One thing that has helped is to use boiling water in the recipe. The sucanat grains dissolve that way, but unfortunately the fat melts, too, making it more runny. This makes a very nice frosting to “drizzle” over a bundt cake, though. (I like this better anyway because you use – and eat – less “sugar” than when you frost a two-layer cake!) Now if there was only a “healthy” yellow cake with white frosting that I am OFTEN asked to make for birthdays. Still have not found a recipe that I’m happy with (help, Laura!!!!!!!!!!!)

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  6. melanie says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:40 am

    My daughter was just telling me that the boiling water is supposed to bring out the flavor in the cocoa ~ So this should be great frosting! Thanks, Laura!

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  7. Kimberly says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:45 am

    I’m sure this recipe is plenty to frost a cake…if you don’t eat it all with a spoon first. :)

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  8. Christy says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:45 am

    Wishing I had a free taste “test” of that! : )

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  9. Taryn says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:55 am

    Umm- yum.

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  10. Ivette says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:00 am

    Looks so good. Can’t wait for the cake recipe also.

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  11. Blair says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:03 am

    Yummy!! We LOVE chocolate around here!

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  12. april says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:06 am

    chocolate. did you have to give us this one days before Trunk-or Treat???

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  13. Erin Lowen says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:08 am

    I’ve been craving chocolate and don’t want the bad for you candy bars. I can’t wait to try this one.
    Thanks.

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  14. Danielle says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:17 am

    Looks great. My 3-year-old wants chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for his birthday November. I will be trying this recipe for sure!

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  15. Robyn O. says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Oh my yumminess! Just in time for my boy’s birthday cake!

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  16. Stefanie says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:23 am

    Looks really yummy! Can’t wait to try it!

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  17. Dana says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:24 am

    This looks delicious! I’ll have to give it a try!

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  18. Janeen says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Ooooo. This looks wonderful! Thanks for the recipe!

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  19. Kathy says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Wowza is right, Laura. Thanks for the yummy-looking recipe. I’ll have to give it a try soon!

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  20. Christy says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:07 am

    Yum! Thanks!

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  21. Jami says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:11 am

    Holy Cow! That makes me wanna make chocolate cake right now! Why do you do these things!!!??? :)

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  22. Cheryl says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Found the comment on why you boil the butter & water. Is that the reason?

    Will have to give this a go some time soon. Maybe for your pretzels I’m going to try for our church’s birthday fellowship this Sunday!

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    • Laura says

      October 28, 2010 at 9:20 am

      I wasn’t aware that boiling the water and butter would bring out the cocoa flavor, but what I have noticed about doing this is that it gives the frosting more of a fudge consistency instead of just chocolate – if that makes any sense!

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  23. Tracey says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:18 am

    So craving chocolate cake now!!

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  24. Shonda says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:36 am

    I would love to make this frosting!

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  25. Jennifer S. says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:42 am

    I really, really am looking forward to trying this recipe.

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  26. Allyson says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Oh, I wish my husband ate chocolate. I can’t realy justify making all of this just for me :(

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  27. Debbie says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:45 am

    It’s 60 degrees in my house today and the oven is already on because I don’t want to turn on the heat yet. I am thinking that a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting, apple sauce bread, and roasted potatoes might just be in the working while I am enjoying teaching Sonlight curriculum to my children.

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  28. jennifer viol says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:51 am

    Yum! Great photos

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  29. Suanna says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:03 am

    This sounds really good.

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  30. Carrie says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:12 am

    This looks delicious and sounds easy to make too.

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  31. Melissa says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Oh this looks “Heavenly”! :) Can’t wait to try it out!

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  32. Carmen says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:39 am

    oh my goodness!!!!….my girls will thank-you dearly for this recipe…
    YUM–can’t wait to try it.

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  33. Debbie says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Is organic cane juice sweetener the same thing as sucanat? I found it in bulk at http://www.bulkfoods.com for $112.45 for 50 lbl.

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    • Laura says

      October 28, 2010 at 11:20 am

      No, that’s not quite the same thing (if I was looking at the correct item). Sucanat has a brown color and is less refined than what they picture. I’ll do a more thorough explanation of sucanat in a few days.

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  34. Laurie Plath says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Looks wonderful, I’ll have to try making my own powdered sugar.

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  35. Peggy says

    October 28, 2010 at 11:05 am

    I love chocolate. I will definitely have to try this recipe. Thanks!

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  36. Marianne says

    October 28, 2010 at 11:10 am

    MMMMM chocolate…how can I not try this one? :)

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  37. DorthyM says

    October 28, 2010 at 11:56 am

    I love frosting! Especially chocolate fudge…well, anything chocolate fudge! BTW. after seeing that the last thing showing up on facebook is what to do with butternut squash yesterday, and still not seeing an update now, i finally (duh) figured out, come to the website! Guess facebook is being picky again.

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  38. Sally says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    Thank you thank you! That is on my list to try very soon.
    I use both honey crystals and succanat ( I get them from http://www.breadbeckers.com ) Which one would you recommend for this
    recipe?

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  39. Christine says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    I am the only person in my house who likes chocolate frosting… Going to have to try this recipe and just eat it all myself!

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  40. stephanie says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    YUMMY…I love choc frosting

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  41. alesha says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    Looks good. I just bought some sucanat and tried your flour-less peanut butter bars. (which my kids loved) So I’ll have to try this. Keep the yummy recipes coming.

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  42. Jennifer says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Yum!

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  43. Vanessa says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Mmmmm! This looks so yummy!

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  44. Heather Eide says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Yummy…chocolate in any form it good in my book! :)

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  45. Sacha says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Looks yummy! Any ideas on healthy chocolate syrup for making chocolate milk?

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  46. Heather says

    October 28, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Hello, beautiful! Who doesn’t love chocolate? And is there such a things as too much frosting for a pan of brownies? Not in our house there isn’t! And frosting on graham crackers is one of my favorite treats, although we do it less than once a year here. SO GOOD. Even better when they get soft the second day, but rarely make it that long.

    Heather

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  47. Bethany B. says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    YUM!!!!!!! Ok, now I need to go find a reason to make a chocolate cake…

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  48. Rachel B says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    This looks WAY too good! But I did really need a reason to make some homemade powdered sugar … :)

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  49. Angela says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    now I feel like making something chocolate!!!

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  50. Carmen says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Yum! Chocolate frosting. Can’t wait to see the cake recipe.

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  51. Kellie says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    I think I’ll be baking and frosting a cake this weekend!

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  52. Ashley says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    That looks heavenly! I have to make a cake for the Fall festival at our church…I’m thinking chocolate would be perfect!

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  53. Leah says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    oh my!!! The pictures created some huge craving!!!

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  54. Erin says

    October 28, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Hmmm, now I need to make a cake so I can have a viable excuse to make this ridiculously yummy-looking frosting, Laura! (I seriously considered halving the recipe and just making a batch of it for us to enjoy straight from the ball, but that’s just too gluttonous. Even for me. :) Thanks for the great posts this week!

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  55. [email protected] says

    October 28, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    THANK YOU! Just this week, I made a cookie cake for my daughter’s birthday. The cookie was all “real food”, but I didn’t have a good icing recipe. I will next time!

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  56. Mombeam says

    October 28, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Are there specks in the frosting or is that just some effect of the photograph? If there are actually specks does that have to do with the sucanat?

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    • Laura says

      October 28, 2010 at 3:47 pm

      Yes, there are some specks in the frosting as the sucanat turned powdered sugar isn’t quite as fine as what we’re used to. But on the cake, I didn’t even notice. Also, the picture shows my first attempt at making it this way. The second time around, I was able to get it smoother.

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  57. Jacque says

    October 28, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    I love chocolate frosting!!!

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  58. Aya says

    October 28, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Yum! I’m craving sugar now though. :)

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  59. Carol E. says

    October 28, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Thank you so much for this recipe. The only reason to eat cake is for the chocolate frosting, in my opinion.

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  60. Sarah DJ says

    October 28, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    Oh wow…yum.

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  61. Michele M. says

    October 28, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    I made this today and frosted a cake with it. Yum!!!!! Now, what to do with the leftovers…

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  62. Wendy says

    October 28, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Chocolate on chocolate!! My FAVORITE!!! :)

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  63. Christina says

    October 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    This recipe sounds so good!!

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  64. Lorinda says

    October 28, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    What a yummy looking treat!

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  65. Elaine says

    October 28, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    thanks looks great

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  66. Sara R. says

    October 28, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    Yay! I’ve been waiting for this recipe since you first mentioned it back at the beginning of the week! I’ll definitely be trying this one!

    Reply
  67. Katie M. says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    mmm….i want to eat this, cake or no cake :)

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  68. Sarah says

    October 28, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    I am so craving chocolate now!

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  69. Andrea says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Finally! The recipe that has been TAUNTING us for a whole week. :) Do you think it would be possible to make this with coconut oil? It looks too yummy. I just might have to try and see!

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  70. sara says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    This sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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  71. Barbra says

    October 28, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    Looks lovely. I am a chocolate fan! But I may try it with carob powder, I know the taste will NOT be the same.

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  72. AmyR says

    October 28, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Yum, yum!

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  73. fudge recipe says

    October 29, 2010 at 3:29 am

    Chocolate fudge frosting is my twin boys’ favorite. They don’t really care what’s underneath, be it carrot cake, marble cake, or even a pumpkin cake. They love giving me a hand in the kitchen. I used to put chocolate fudge frosting in a pipe bag, now they can simply scoop it out with a spatula right from the bowl. :)

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  74. Pam F. says

    October 29, 2010 at 4:24 am

    I need to make the cake so I don’t eat the frosting by the spoonful!

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  75. Tanya says

    October 29, 2010 at 4:44 am

    I just made this frosting and your doughnuts! Oh my goodness….They are both SCRUMPTIOUS!

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  76. Merry Jo says

    October 29, 2010 at 5:10 am

    Sounds SO delicious!

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  77. Kristin says

    October 29, 2010 at 5:34 am

    Oooo! Looks delicious.

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  78. Sabrina says

    October 29, 2010 at 5:47 am

    That looks delicious!

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  79. Lisa says

    October 29, 2010 at 7:09 am

    I will definitely try this!

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  80. Kristi says

    October 29, 2010 at 8:07 am

    I can’t wait to give this one a try – I will be licking the spatula!

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  81. Rebekah says

    October 29, 2010 at 8:34 am

    Nothing beats homemade frosting! I read a comment recently on a cake making site where the woman said she didn’t have time to make homemade frosting but she constructed acorns out of meringue?? I love knowing how to make things from scratch! It really saves time (on last-minute runs to the store) and makes me feel like I know my way around my kitchen!

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  82. Lenetta says

    October 29, 2010 at 9:35 am

    Hooray for healthier good stuff! This looks sooo yummy.

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  83. Natasha says

    October 29, 2010 at 9:38 am

    So easy! Who would have thought!

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  84. Susan says

    October 29, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Oh, this sounds yummy. I live with 3 sickos (husband and sons) who do not like chocolate! :) This may not stop me from making it though. ;)

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  85. Kelly says

    October 29, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    This looks so wonderful! Even my husband (who has an incredible sixth sense about knowing when I’ve “healthied up” a recipe won’t see this coming!

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  86. Sara says

    November 18, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    Thanks! I am lazy and melted the butter in the microwave, added the water and heated it back up in the micro and then took it out and dumped it into the dry ingredients and mixed it with a regular spoon (i halved the recipe). It was GREAT on my homemade whole wheat brownies. yum!

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  87. Sue says

    December 21, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    My family does not like dark chocolate. Would you please tell me how strong the chocolate frosting is? It looks delicious.

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    • Laura says

      December 21, 2010 at 8:58 pm

      This is more of a milk chocolate I’d say…since it has butter in it. It’s rich, but not like dark chocolate.

      Reply
  88. Sue says

    December 22, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Thank you very much. I am very eager to make it.

    Reply
  89. Gretchen says

    January 1, 2011 at 6:02 am

    This was really good! I used about 2/3 evaporated cane juice and 1/3 rapadura to cut down on the rapadura taste, but it was still strong. However, everyone really liked it! Thanks for the recipe, I will be making again.

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  90. ~ginger~ says

    February 6, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    I just made the Buttermilk chocolate cake with REAL butter, Buttermilk made from RAW milk, and Sucanat.

    I’m making the Powdered Sucanat Frosting from your website, and having made this before, I wanted to offer a couple of quick suggestions to aid in the consistency. First, use Milk instead of water, and secondly, add the cocoa powder directly to the butter mixture. While that’s cooling a little, mix all the remaining ingredients.

    Then combine the two mixtures. It’ll be smooth the very first time around, with a fraction of the beating time. (Esp. if you’re doing it by hand.:)~

    Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes! From a fellow Nourishing Traditions, Homesteading, Homeschooling Mom of 5!

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  91. Sandra says

    February 16, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    The novelty of having an effectively infinite supply of powdered sugar at my disposal caused me to make my frosting a little too stiff. It was still smooth and usable. It’s just that applying it to the cake was more like spreading putty than what I think of as typical frosting. It was a refreshing change from my too-thin efforts in my distant past, before I gave up frostings entirely. It was also utterly delicious.

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  92. Melissa says

    April 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    Finally had a good excuse to actually make this, and it was amazing!! I was given fresh cane sugar from a local farmer (south LA is loaded with cane fields ;)), so I powdered that in the blender instead of sucanat. It’s a little more moist, but the frosting was heavenly. ;) I got tons of compliments and requests for the recipe. Thank you for experimenting and sharing!

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    • Laura says

      April 19, 2011 at 3:22 pm

      I’m so jealous that you got FRESH cane sugar!!!!! I don’t even know what that looks like. It sounds so delicious!

      Reply
      • Melissa says

        April 19, 2011 at 3:32 pm

        It is, and it’s beautiful!! Some neighbors have friends and family from two different fields, so my sugar jar looks like one of those colored-sand “sculptures”. Wish you were closer to share, but, then again, we don’t have Azure Standard anywhere around here, which I am incredibly jealous of. ;)

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  93. jenn foy says

    July 8, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    oh wow. this was INCREDIBLE!!!

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  94. Elizabeth says

    October 9, 2011 at 10:18 am

    Could this be used to frost cupcakes??

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    • [email protected] says

      October 10, 2011 at 11:01 am

      Sure! Great idea!

      Reply
  95. Kathryn says

    January 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Oh YUM!!!!!!!! We made this for my moms birthday!!!!! Delicious!!!!!!

    Reply
  96. Lisa says

    January 19, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    Cake is in the oven and the frosting…… oh, mine. I hope the cake gets some of the frosting because I can’t keep my fingers out of the bowl.

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  97. Jill says

    March 1, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Hi. What kind of cocoa powder do you use for both the cake and frosting recipes? Is it sweetened? Thank you.

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    • [email protected] says

      March 20, 2012 at 11:26 am

      It’s unsweetened. :)

      Reply
  98. Angela says

    March 27, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Oh wow!! This was fantastic frosting! I seriously wanted to just eat the whole bowl! Mine set up really quick making it a little challenging to spread…did I add too much powdered sugar? Is there something I could do different to keep it more spreadable? Thank you, thank you for this recipe. It’s definitely a keeper!!

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    • [email protected] says

      April 10, 2012 at 9:28 am

      If you add just a tiny bit of water it should spread easier.

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      • Angela says

        April 10, 2012 at 10:58 am

        Ahhh, ok. I’ll try this next time because, yes, there WILL be a next time. :) Thanks!!

        Reply
  99. Brooke says

    April 22, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    Quick question Laura!! :)
    On this recipe, can I replace the butter with coconut oil to make it dairy free??

    Reply
    • Amy says

      April 28, 2013 at 8:30 pm

      I’ve tried it with coconut oil and it worked wonderfully.

      Reply
      • Brooke says

        April 29, 2013 at 3:41 pm

        Thank you Amy :)

        Reply
    • [email protected] says

      June 3, 2013 at 11:09 am

      I think it is delicious when replaced with coconut oil. My family loves it too!

      Reply

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