American Dessert
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
INGREDIENTS
1¾ cups heavy whipping cream
1¾ cups (10 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips
3¼ cups confectioners’ sugar
Makes 4½ cups. Takes 1 hour 15 minutes.
FROSTING NEEDED
Dessert Type Needs Cups of Frosting
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2 layer cake 3
3 layer cake 4
12 cupcakes 2
13″ * 9″ cake 2
PREPARATION
Add heavy whipping cream to pan. Heat whipping cream at medium heat until cream just starts to bubble. Stir constantly. Remove from heat. Add chocolate chips. Stir with spatula or fork until all chips melt. Transfer to large mixing bowl. Keep in refrigerator until cooled and still pourable, about 40 minutes. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar.
Mix with whisk or fork. Lasts for 7 days in refrigerator when stored in Mason jar or other airtight container.
TIDBITS
1) Chocolate has pleased billions of people for thousands of years. Just saying “chocolate” puts even the most stubborn people in a good mood. This is why chocolate figures prominently in peace treaties, legislation, and court cases.
2) If only there were enough chocolate to dispel all disagreements, the world would be perfect.
3) But there isn’t. Powerful people try to secure the globe’s chocolate supply for themselves. The Aztec nobility monopolized Mexico’s chocolate. This bred fierce resentment among the poor Aztecs and in all of the surrounding tribes. So, when Cortés and his fellow conquistadors set out in 1519 to conquer the Aztecs, the chocolate-lacking Mexicans said, “Sure, why not? Go ahead.”
4) The gold-lusting Spanish then went onto conquer the Incans in Peru for its gold. Spanish gold financed over a hundred years of wars in Europe. And all this happened because the Aztec elite wouldn’t share its chocolate. So when people ask for part of your chocolate bar, give them some. Oh look, I have an extra line left. Let’s use this space to daydream about chocolate. Mmm.
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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