Made a chocolate devils food cake & looked online for a quick & easy buttercream frosting to make... I had no cocoa powder in the house but did have chocolate chips. This was great, but you have to make sure the butter/sugar/milk is boiled until the sugar granules dissolve... takes a while. I whipped the frosting until it cooled and was afraid it wouldn't firm up. The more I let it cool, the better it became. Once the cake was cooled, I re-whipped the frosting and it was delicious!! Added some coconut extract to the frosting, as well as some coconut & crushed almonds to the top after frosting!! who needs dinner when you can have cakeC?!!

Love this frosting! Very easy and tastes great. I used dark chocolate chips and it was outstanding!! Tasted like fudge frosting. Thank you.

It was good and fudge-like. Next time I will increase the recipe, it didn't make quite enough for a 9 x 13 cake.

What an excellent recipe, I added 1/4 pb and topped it over my King Arthur Flour cake pan cake recipe and wow was it rich and good. Thanks.

If using regular sugar, the sugar can crystalize causing hard spots. To avoid that add 1-2 tablespoon of light corn syrup which will stop sugar from crystalizing. If you want perfection every time use 10x sugar!!!

Best homemade icing, easy too but I also added 1 heaping big spoon of peanut butter. Yummy! Tasted heavenly!

I couldn't find my mom's recipe for choc. frosting -- this is close but she used canned milk.

I can bake breads, every time I try cakes or cupcakes something seems to go wrong. But I was able to bake a cake using an old recipe of my mom's and this was the perfect icing for it! Quick and easy and I had everything on hand.

This is a keeper! So chocolatey and delicious. You really do need to let it cool completely and then whip it back up.