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Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe. Black-Bottom Cupcakes Recipe. Black Bottom Cupcakes I Recipe. Cream Cheese Frosting II Recipe. My Favorite Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe: The Cocoa Powder Makes a Difference. I don’t like to play favorites with my recipes. I enjoy almost all of the cakes and frostings that I make. However, I will openly admit that my favorite frosting is chocolate cream cheese frosting. The chocolate cream cheese frosting recipe is at the bottom of this post, but first I want to talk about the key ingredient – cocoa powder. Which Cocoa Powder to Use in Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting? The best cocoa powder for you to chose for your chocolate cream cheese frosting entirely depends on your tastes and to whom you are serving your baked goods. One of the best blog posts I’ve read in a while was on the Evite blog. I wasn’t a regular reader (it’s now in my RSS), but I happened to be over there sending out at Evite when I came across a cookie taste test blog post.

The blog author (there was no name cited) talks about an experiment where he/she served three different types of Toll House chocolate chip cookies: Other Products Related to Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting. Homemade Chocolate Frosting. Photo credit: Frances Berriman Cupcake frosting comes in many different flavors but the staples remain vanilla and chocolate.

Vanilla buttercream is probably the king of all frosting, but in a close second is chocolate frosting and there's nothing to wet the palate quite like a big bowl of homemade chocolate frosting. Chocolate frosting tops off any cupcake and tastes especially good atop vanilla cupcakes. Decorating chocolate frosting can also be a lot of fun. Generally I use muted and pastel sprinkles with white frosting, but with homemade chocolate frosting I like to use brighter colors: bright blues, yellows, purples, and pinks look especially nice.Here's a great and easy recipe from my personal collection for homemade chocolate frosting. Makes enough for around 30 cupcakes. 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter14 oz semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled2.5 TBSP milk2 tsp vanilla extract5 cups confectioners sugar Beat butter until smooth.