Alternative Chocolate Icing

Cakes, RecipesOctober 15, 2014No comments
5/5 - (1 vote)

This uses dark chocolate and icing sugar but makes a glossy icing that is easy to make instead of ganache when you have no cream in the fridge.

Chocolate Icing

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  • Difficulty: easy
  • Recipe type: icing

Ingredients:

  • 6oz dark chocolate
  • 4oz icing sugar
  • 4 tbsp hot water

Directions:

  1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl over a pan of simmering water and mix until the chocolate has melted, stirring all the time.
  2. Spread over the cake once it has cooled and thickened a little.

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