Alice Shields is the Former Senior Cookery Writer for Good Housekeeping. A trained pastry chef, you’ll find her food styling on photo shoots, developing delicious recipes and writing about all things food. She loves to bake and her favourite pudding will always be a chocolate fondant. Originally hailing from Lancashire, she finally achieved her goal of getting a butter pie recipe into the magazine.
The easiest 3-ingredient melt-and-mix fudgy chocolate icing recipe
A simple chocolate frosting recipe that will elevate any celebration cake

Move over buttercream! All you need is a pan and a spatula to make this fudgy 3-ingredient chocolate frosting. This recipe makes enough to ice the top of a 20cm round or square cake, but you can double the quantities if you are slicing and sandwiching together.
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Yields:
16 serving(s)
Prep Time:
5 mins
Cook Time:
5 mins
Total Time:
10 mins
Ingredients
- 200 g sweetened condensed milk
- 15 g butter
- 75 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
Directions
- Step 1Stir all the ingredients together in a pan over low heat until melted and combined. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool and thicken, stirring occasionally.
GH TIPS:
Use this recipe to ice our fudgy all-in-one chocolate cake.
If you like this recipe you’ll love our whipped caramel ganache.
Alice Shields
Former Senior Cookery Writer
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