Mama's Quicker Fudge Frosting

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Taste is fudgy great, however; it was as runny as soup even though I had every measurement and every step exact. Try and figure? It became ice cream topping.

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Sounds good gonna have to try it... Love Ya Paula Deen...

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One of the easiest, richest, and best fudge frosting recipes I've ever used. Beats a canned frosting hands down and is much cheaper, too!

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This frosting was not good,it was to sweet and just didnt have a good flavor. I would rather use frosting from the grocery store. Even my kids that usually like evert thing sweet didnt like it.

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I've made this recipe twice, and it comes out pretty good. The 1 lb box of sugar is 3.5 to 4 cups, depending on how much you pack the sugar when scooping. I prefer to use a bit less, say 2.5 cups of sugar, which leaves it dark and smooth like a ganache. Even if it looks thin, the frosting does set up thicker as it dries. Mine doesn't taste like ham!

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I went looking for a fudge tasting chocolate frosting and made this one.
I made half a batch. It was easy to make but runny, so I added a cup and a half more sugar. If I were making it again I'd only use a cup more sugar because when it cooled it slid off the brownies I was putting it on. I had to use my fingers to pat it on. The frosting gets thicker as it cools down. The taste wasn't extraordinary.
It tasted like any other chocolate frosting. Actually my chocolate butter cream tastes better and my chocolate whipped frosting even better, but I want a real fudgy frosting. I will keep looking.

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I don't know why, because the pan I used was perfectly clean, but this "frosting" tasted like HAM! Also, it was very runny...more like a glaze than a frosting. I was extremely disappointed with this recipe and absolutely nothing could save it.

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I have a friend who was born 12/26. I will be at her house tomorrow. She loves my cakes and asked me to bring her birthday cake to her house tomorrow. She also loves Lady Deen. I think half the menu tomorrow came from Lady Deen.

Anway, she wanted a chocolate on chocolate cake. This is the holidays so I wanted to go way over the top. I made 4 layers of cake -- with half and half and butter y'all (not making fun of Lady Deen, I was born and raised in GA too!. I put whipped cream frosting in between the layers, so to get some depth to it. Then I went looking for fudge frosting and found this one. I used half and half instead of butter (again it is the holidays and besides I only by 1% milk. I used 2 squares of unsweetend baking chocolate instead of cocoa. I beat it good and spread half on the outside to seal in the crumbs. I let it set up and in the meantime I had made boiled custard (lots of eggs, sugar, full milk, cream and more half and half for another Christmas event. Since this icing doesn't get that glossy touch I wanted I added some of the custard to the bowl and beat the good. That spread like a mousse across that fudge layer. It is a nice light chocolate gloss that was smooth as...well butter!

I don't want to wait until tomorrow to taste this all together. Two bites of the "mousse" version of the frosting and it was RICH. I am going to remember this for the holidays that is for sure!

I guess I know what our New Year's Resolutions will be :

Oh and Lady Deen, we are having a Smithfield ham tomorrow too, I wil be careful to duck if anyone looks like they may throw it. MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL!

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I am just an ordinary cook. I read the comments and listened to their advice. (Thanks for reminding me it is not rocket science! From now on this is the only frosting that I will use. It was perfect and delicious - I really cannot see where some of the people went wrong!

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This is my standby snaz-up anything frosting! I've made it literally dozens of times and it always turns out perfectly in just a few minutes. It's very thick and sets up quickly. You can make it without the nuts, but it just is NOT the same!

To address a few others' comments...I too had to look up how much powdered sugar in a box since we buy it in bags here. I think it said 4 1/2 cups or something along that lines. However, it's frosting, not rocket science, so just add until it's the thickness you like. A stick of butter is 1/2 cup or 8 tablespoons, unless you use those Crisco butter sticks, which are 1cup or 16 ounces each. It tastes better with real butter though! The NY lady with thickening troubles may be facing altitude issues?