Icing on It the Chocolate Way

Chocolate icing

Icing a cake is giving a cake its final look and in a way adding on to its persona. It is this look that would team up a whole lot of pair of eyes gazing at it and eventually lead to the purchase.

At home it is the graph of excitement that keeps getting higher as the look keeps getting better…thanks to the inclusion of frosting in the world of bakery, the end couldn’t have been better.

Chocolate icing is famous for two reasons. One, while cooking it spreads an amazing aroma and all chocolate lovers seem to be in a trance! Two, the icing is too good to taste right from the pot; let alone being spread on cakes and cookies.

Chocolate flavoured icing is perhaps one of its only kinds that can be easily spread on any bakery item and tastes remarkably good!

Simple chocolate icing

Seeing the cakes at any pastry shop our eyes normally pop out wondering ‘how’ can someone manage to decorate a cake so well? Isn’t it? Well yes, the exceptional designs do surprise us. But if I tell u that making chocolate icing is as easy as counting one two and three; still surprised? Okay I’ll tell you what to do and then you could decide for yourself!

The ingredients required are:

• One cup of sugar
• About two tablespoons of cocoa powder
• A stick of butter
• One fourth of a cup of milk; and
• One teaspoon of vanilla

Now the working steps are:

• Sift sugar and cocoa powder
• Add butter and milk
• Bring it to boil and boil for about a minute
• Add one teaspoon of vanilla
• Pour into a mixing bowl and beat constantly till the texture is spread able

So when are you preparing chocolate icing?

Dark chocolate icing

Dark chocolate seems to have a certain identity. In other words; when we see dark chocolate we do tend to have an impression about the stuff already long before we consume it.

We siblings have this round of chocolate dissertation among us every time we meet. For the evening snacks we often have cakes and each day is taken over by each of us and according to a certain flavour of chocolate. So Monday its white chocolate and taken by Amy; she is the youngest among all of us.

Sunday is the big day and taken by Richard (he’s the eldest). Guess what the flavour is? You guessed it right; it’s dark chocolate! It’s exactly like him – matured, has a substance of its own and has a distinct style! It’s great fun!

Chocolate cake icing

Whatever the cake may be made of; the initial appeal is struck by the look or better put; the icing on it. So make sure next time you are into baking or buying a cake, apart from the taste of it you surely check on its ‘numero uno’ look!