Quick Fudge Icing

Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Description

This chocolate fudge icing that hardens requires just a few ingredients to make an easy, quick, and good chocolate icing for cakes, brownies, or cookies.

Ingredients

1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup milk
5 tablespoons shortening
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1 Combine sugar, milk, shortening, cocoa, and salt in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a rolling boil, stirring constantly for 2 minutes.
2 Remove from heat and add vanilla; beat until frosting is creamy and thick.