Easy Chocolate 1 Minute Icing - Retro Recipe Box (2024)

FAQs

How to make chocolate icing from store bought vanilla icing? ›

Sift cocoa powder into vanilla frosting to turn it into chocolate. Add a generous pinch of finely ground espresso powder to chocolate frosting to help bring out even more chocolate flavor.

When making black frosting, start with chocolate frosting and add black food color to it. Chocolate frosting works better when making it than if you start with vanilla and it tastes delicious!

For a (16-ounce) tub of frosting, anywhere from ½ cup to 1 cup of crunchy additions will do the trick. Toasted nuts, coconut flakes, chocolate chips or chunks, halvah, and toffee will all add a fun new dimension of flavor. Stir in chopped up canned pineapple or fresh berries for an extra fruity kick.

Frosting is the thickest of these confections and is ideal for spreading or piping on cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Icing is a little thinner than frosting and is often poured or piped over coffee cakes, pound cakes, doughnuts and cookies—and it usually hardens when it dries.

"You can add so many different ingredients to your canned frosting to take it to the next level," says dessert and food blogger Melissa Johnson of Best Friends For Frosting. "Mixing in cream cheese, whipped cream, lemon zest, or even Nutella can make such a difference."

In a large bowl, mix together frosting, cocoa powder and a tablespoon of the black food gel to start. Combine. Add more black food gel until the frosting has reached the desired color.

Use black cocoa and melted dark chocolate to naturally give your frosting a deep base color. If you can't find black cocoa, you can also use dark cocoa powder. Let the melted chocolate cool for about 10 minutes before adding it into your frosting. This will prevent it from melting the butter in your frosting.

Yes, empty the frosting into a bowl, and use a hand mixer to add unsweetened cocoa. But this chocolate-cream cheese frosting is so easy—and the flavor so much better than store-bought—you might as well make this easy homemade recipe.

How do you doctor up store bought vanilla frosting? ›

Flavor or color will add some pop

The simplest thing to add is a teaspoon or two of vanilla extract to a can of store-bought frosting. Other kinds of extracts will add interest and special flavors that can complement the ingredients in your cake or dessert.

Adding Flavor to Store-Bought Frosting

You can also try adding 1 teaspoon of your favorite flavored syrup, such as maple, caramel or raspberry, for a tasty frosting pairing to your chocolate or vanilla cake.