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Creamy Milk Chocolate Frosting

Name: Creamy Milk Chocolate Frosting
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, heavy cream; pinch, table salt; 1 tablespoon, light corn syrup (or dark); 10 ounces, milk chocolate, chopped; 1/2 cup, confectioners' sugar; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), cold, cut into 8 pieces

Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2001

An easy frosting for our quick chocolate sheet cake.

YIELD Makes about 2 cups

TIME 15 minutes, plus 1 hour cooling

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Gather Your Ingredients

½ cup heavy cream

pinch table salt

1 tablespoon light corn syrup (or dark)

½ cup confectioners' sugar

8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick), cold, cut into 8 pieces

Before You Begin

This frosting needs about an hour to cool before it can be used, so begin making it when the cake comes out of the oven.

Instructions

Heat cream, salt, and corn syrup in microwave-safe measuring cup on high until simmering, about 1 minute, or bring to simmer in small saucepan over medium heat. Place chocolate in workbowl of food processor fitted with steel blade. With machine running, gradually add hot cream mixture through feed tube; process 1 minute after cream has been added. Stop machine; add confectioners´ sugar to workbowl and process to combine, about 30 seconds. With machine running, add butter through feed tube one piece at a time; process until incorporated and smooth, about 20 seconds longer. Transfer frosting to medium bowl and cool at room temperature, stirring frequently, until thick and spreadable, about 1 hour.

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