Name: Chocolate Icing
Ingredients: 1 cup fondant or boiled icing; 1 tablespoon grated chocolate

Chocolate Icing

Ingredients

1 cup fondant or boiled icing
1 tablespoon grated chocolate

Directions

Add the grated chocolate to the fondant or boiled icing and stir until smooth.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Grated chocolate: Adds chocolate flavour and colour to the icing.
Fondant or boiled icing: Forms the sweet, smooth base that the chocolate is stirred into.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.