Cooked Chocolate Frosting Recipe

5 from 3 votes

This frosting is a cooked sour cream frosting recipe that is so easy to make! This chocolate cooked frosting is similar to ganache, but better.

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Setting Time3

Total Time3 20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 4000kcal

Cost: $8

Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in sugar, cocoa, and salt. The mixture will be thick and grainy.
Whisk heavy cream, sour cream, vanilla and instant coffee in a large measuring cup. Slowly add the cream mixture into your saucepan and whisk until smooth. Cook over medium-low heat until the sugar has dissolved and is hot to the touch, between 4-8 minutes. (Mine cooked in about 4 minutes, but it could take longer.) Do not boil!
Transfer frosting to a bowl and let cool 2-3 hours until it’s spreadable. You can also chill it so it will set up faster. If it gets to hard to spread, microwave it on 20 second intervals, stirring in between, until it’s the desired consistency.
Frost top of cupcake with chocolate frosting. Store in refrigerator, let come to room temperature before serving.

Be sure to use only HEAVY whipping cream for the recipe to work.
To cool the frosting faster you can chill it.
The frosting will set solid as if it's chilled, so let come to room temperature or microwave on 50% power in 15 second increments to thin.
If you want to add the instant coffee, it won't make the icing taste like mocha, instead it deepens the chocolate flavor.