Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Raise your hand if you like cream cheese frosting!

(Please tell me I’m not the only one with both hands raised)

This is the chocolate, luscious, delicious, elegant, perfect version of cream cheese frosting. It is great on yellow cake, chocolate cake and red velvet cake (that red cake that is just a vehicle for cream cheese frosting). Oh and cupcakes. And graham crackers. And your finger.

I most recently used it on the Broken Bones Graveyard Cake for Halloween!

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Work Time

10 mins

Total Time

10 mins

 

This is the chocolate, luscious, delicious, elegant, perfect version of cream cheese frosting.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chocolate, cream cheese, frosting

Yield: 3 Cups

Calories: 1289 kcal

Ingredients

• ¾ cup unsalted butter 1½ sticks, softened
• 1 pkg cream cheese (8 oz) softened
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa sifted
• 1 lb confectioners' sugar 4 cups
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 to 4 tbsp milk

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, beat butter and cream cheese together until creamy, about 2 min. Stir in cocoa. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing well. Beat in vanilla extract and milk and stir until smooth. Can be refrigerated up to one week; bring to room temperature and stir before using.

Recipe Notes

This frosting is going to be your favorite!  Delicious spread on almost anything!

Nutrition Facts

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Amount Per Serving

Calories 1289 Calories from Fat 657

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 73g 112%

Saturated Fat 44g 220%

Cholesterol 204mg 68%

Sodium 254mg 11%

Potassium 336mg 10%

Total Carbohydrates 162g 54%

Dietary Fiber 4g 16%

Sugars 150g

Protein 7g 14%

Vitamin A 48.6%

Calcium 10.6%

Iron 13.1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Recipe by Tara Bench