Chocolate Frosting for Two Layer Cakes
 
 
Ingredients
  • 2 1/4 - 3 1/4 cups confectioners' (icing) sugar
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 6 ounces cream cheese, cut into cubes and softened to room temperature
  • 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled slightly
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
Instructions
  1. Into a small bowl, sift together the 2 1/4 cups icing sugar, the cocoa powder and the pinch of salt.
  2. Beat together cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, on medium-high until smooth and fluffy.
  3. Reduce speed to the lowest speed and gradually add the sugar-cocoa mixture, and beat until combined. With the mixer on low, slowly pour in melted, cooled chocolate. Repeat, adding the sour cream then beat until the icing is well combined. creme fraiche; beat until combined. If the icing is too soft to hold its shape, beat in an additional cup of icing sugar.
  4. Adapted from Martha Stewart
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2013/10/16/lumberjack-kit-kat-cake/