Easy Chocolate Fudge Icing

Chocolate frosting, chocolate buttercream or chocolate icing. Whatever you call it, this quick chocolate fudge frosting is the best way to make rich, velvetty chocolate icing for chocolate flavoured cupcakes, celebration cakes or any bake you want to add an extra layer of indulgence to. This chocolate fudge icing is a perfect home-made alternative to Betty Crocker chocolate fudge icing, and thanks to Silver Spoon Icing Sugar this super easy chocolate buttercream is fluffy, sweet and silky to smoother onto your traybakes or cupcakes in less than 5 minutes. 

We love this chocolate buttercream ontop of a rich chocolate cake for the ultimate chocolate hit, especially dolloped ontop of our Mary Berry Chocolate Cupcakes. The cocoa powder and dark chocolate in this chocolate fudge icing recipe is key to getting the fudgey, rich flavour we all love from a good chocolate cake recipe. 

This recipe is our favourite chocolate buttercream recipe, but there's so many more flavours you can add to your Silver Spoon Icing Sugar buttercream which is what makes homemade buttercream such a great recipe to get to grips with! Why not try making delicious Red Velvet cupcakes with your left over cocoa powder and top with Cream Cheese Icing, or simply use up any left over buttercream with some yummy cake jars, layered with fluffy sponge, smooth buttercream and salted caramel drizzles! For the perfect silky base to any flavour you'd like to add, our Basic Buttercream is perfect for adding Nielsen-Massey Lemon Extract, Nielsen-Massy Coffee Extract or simply with Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract.