Friday, May 30, 2014

For my next trick...chocolate frosting

Ok, so this isn't traditional frosting, but it tastes mighty good on chocolate cake (gluten free, but not made with buckwheat or quinoa so I won't post it).  But as I was sampling a bit as a popsicle, I thought that it would make a fabulous chocolate cream pie if it was chilled.  And I might have to break down and buy an electric hand mixer to see if I can make it a little fluffier.  Enough dreaming...here's the recipe:

Chocolate frosting aka chocolate cream pie filling aka chocolate mousse

Cream from one can of coconut milk 
2 T cocoa
6 T brown sugar (or equivalent sweetener)

Put the can of coconut in the fridge without shaking and let the cream rise to the top and get a little more solid (overnight).  Open the can and save the more watery part of the coconut milk for another recipe.  Put the cream, cocoa, and brown sugar in a bowl and whip until light and fluffy.  Spread onto a cooled cake.  Note that if the cake is not completely cooled, the frosting will melt quite quickly as coconut everything has quite a low melting point.  You may want to refrigerate the frosted cake if you want the frosting a little more solid or if it is summer and you don't have A/C like me.