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Chocolate Icing

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Vanilla
  3. 1 teaspoonful butter
  4. 8 oz. icing sugar
  5. 2 oz. chocolate
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. 2 oz.
  2. chocolate.
  3. Vanilla.
  4. 1 teaspoonful butter.
  5. Water.
  6. 8 oz.
  7. icing sugar.
  8. Dissolve the chocolate in a very little water, add the butter, and boil well to give the icing a gloss.
  9. Leave till cool.
  10. Beat in the icing sugar with enough tepid water to make a coating consistency, and add the vanilla.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan