Chocolate icing

I am making my wife's birthday cake and need a good chocolate icing. Anyone have a good rich, dark chocolate icing recipe they'd care to share?

I just make the regular buttercream frosting recipe on the box of Domino confectioner's sugar, then add something like 4 or 6 squares of Baker's chocolate, melted. Blend it all with an electric mixer. Yum!

I've been looking at the recipe on the Hershey's box and wondering if that was the same stuff my grandma used to make.

3 bars of favorite chocolate, no nuts, expensive ones are best

1 Tsp. vanilla

Pint of heavy whipping cream

Scald the whipping cream, add vanilla, and stir in bits of chocolate with a whisk until fully melted. Should be thick, almost like pudding. Allow to cool slightly before pouring over cake. It will continue to thicken and solidify as it fully cools.

My wife says that it's a chocolate ganache. She decorated cakes for a living in highschool and undergrad, and my gut can attest to how good this frosting really is.

Teqnyck wrote: 3 bars of favorite chocolate, no nuts, expensive ones are best 1 Tsp. vanilla Pint of heavy whipping cream Scald the whipping cream, add vanilla, and stir in bits of chocolate with a whisk until fully melted. Should be thick, almost like pudding. Allow to cool slightly before pouring over cake. It will continue to thicken and solidify as it fully cools. My wife says that it's a chocolate ganache. She decorated cakes for a living in highschool and undergrad, and my gut can attest to how good this frosting really is.

+1 for ganache

Hocrest wrote:

Teqnyck wrote: 3 bars of favorite chocolate, no nuts, expensive ones are best 1 Tsp. vanilla Pint of heavy whipping cream Scald the whipping cream, add vanilla, and stir in bits of chocolate with a whisk until fully melted. Should be thick, almost like pudding. Allow to cool slightly before pouring over cake. It will continue to thicken and solidify as it fully cools. My wife says that it's a chocolate ganache. She decorated cakes for a living in highschool and undergrad, and my gut can attest to how good this frosting really is.

+1 for ganache

My Mom made Ganache frosted cupcakes in addition to a birthday cake last month & they were so decadent ! (She crabbed about how difficult it was to work with, maybe that's not as much of an issue with a full cake ?)

Ganache is what I ended up with.

I made a soft fudge for between the layers and topped the whole thing off with ganache.

It was good.