The Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting and Homemade Moist Yellow Cake
Baking a birthday cake? Get senior food editor Amy Traverso’s favorite yellow cake recipe, plus a new chocolate fudge frosting recipe that’ll make any home baker look like an expert.
By Amy Traverso|Aug 27 2019|
The Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting and Homemade Moist Yellow Cake
Credit: Amy TraversoThe Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting and Homemade Moist Yellow Cake
Credit: Amy TraversoCredit: Amy Traverso It’s Rose’s Fudge Frosting from Rosie’s All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book (Workman Publishing, 2011) by Judy Rosenberg. Who wouldn’t love a book with a name like that? I’m a fan of Judy’s bakeries in the Boston area and the book is full of recipes for all her classics, like peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and chocolate delirium cake. I chose this chocolate fudge frosting recipe on a whim because I had never heard of a frosting made with evaporated milk, or one that’s quite so easy to make. There are three ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, evaporated milk, and sugar. That’s it! It has no added fat, other than the cocoa butter in the chocolate. Here’s the recipe:
The Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting from Rosie’s All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book (Workman Publishing, 2011) by Judy Rosenberg.
Credit: Amy TraversoCredit: Amy Traverso
Rosie’s Best Chocolate Fudge Frosting
This chocolate fudge frosting recipe couldn’t be easier. Just two caveats: You have to make it in a blender. Nothing else works. And you have to plan ahead because the frosting needs a few hours to set up once it’s mixed. Total Time: 12 minutes; plus at least 2 hours resting time Hands-on Time: 12 minutes Yield: 1 3/4 cups Fudge Frosting Ingredients- 6 ounces (6 squares) unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
This gorgeous and glossy chocolate fudge frosting spreads beautifully.
Credit: Amy TraversoCredit: Amy Traverso The frosting is so gorgeous and glossy and spreads beautifully. “You’re making me look good,” I thought as I spread it on my cake. Incidentally, I was curious to know more about evaporated milk frosting, and I haven’t yet found much about them. But I did learn that the first canned milk was produced in this country by Gail Borden, who first began producing sweetened condensed milk in 1857 at a factory in Burrville, Connecticut. Evaporated milk, which doesn’t contain sugar, came later.
Homemade Moist Yellow Cake
Total Time: 1 hour Hands-on Time: 25 minutes Yield: 2 cake layers. Yellow cake is a favorite in my home, and this recipe has become my go-to choice for both layer cakes, sheet cakes, and cupcakes. Yellow Cake Ingredients- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for pan
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
- 1 1/4 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt
- 1 cup milk, at room temperature
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Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is a favorite combo in my family, too! Very intrigued by this frosting recipe, but it sounds easy and looks gorgeous so I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing — always good to have gold star cake and frosting recipes!
The chocolate has fat in it so the frosting is not fat-free.
You’re absolutely right, Amalia! What was I thinking? I’ve corrected the text—thanks for pointing it out!
Cake recipe is easy and very good. Frosting has a good taste but wouldn’t thicken up enough. It would be very good as ganache.
Thank you so much for posting the frosting recipe..I have been baking as a professional for a long time and recently remembered this frosting that i used to make on numerous occasio s almost 20 years or more ago. I had judy’s first book but it got thrown out in one of my many moves..it is probably the easiest and most beautiful chocolate frosting I ever used. That first cookbook of hers has so many great recipes..I may have to purchase again. Happy baking.
This is defiantly my go to fudge frosting. It needs to be beaten long enough in the blender to set up right. The sound of the blender is the key. It should sound a little quieter. Making this cake and frosting today. Yay!
Happy to find this recipe. I cannot find my Rosies cookbook at the moment and want to make this again for my sons birthday cake.
Beautiful and easy Fudge Frosting! Thank you.
Easy but highly dependent on the quality of the chocolate chosen. I used an expensive but somewhat weird tasting Indonesian chocolate. The icing tasted just like the chocolate, which is normally a good thing. I saved it by adding a lot of cocoa dissolved in boiling water and a bit of cream. Worked in the end. But next time I’m sticking to a known brand.
Grapenutcustard recipe !
Can I use fat free evaporated milk?
I need low cholesterol recipes.
Does this pipe well? Like for cupcakes?
Big fan Of Rosie’s cookbook had it for years and her sour cream chocolate cake recipe can’t be beat ,not too sweet and rich chocolate flavour. And bonus its gets moister as it ages ,not that its around too long in our house!! But find her frostings a little too sweet,prefer a swiss meringue buttercream.To each his own.
I made this yellow cake yesterday, came out great, cut the recipe in half, the frosting recipe did not work for me, so I made chocolate buttercream, much better, I will defiantly make this cake again
I needed a chocolate frosting recipe but had limited ingredients on hand (no butter, regular milk or confectioner’ssugar). I used skimmed evaporated milk, 4 squares of unsweetened chocolate and about 3 oz. mini chocolate chips. I can’t believe how beautiful and delicious this frosting is!