I have an old recipe for mocha icing that I may share. Hope you enjoy it. One 8-inch layer cake can be made using this recipe.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 cups |
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup strong, hot, brewed coffee
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- ⅓ cup melted butter
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Combine coffee and cocoa in small bowl of electric mixer. Beat until blended. Add sugar, butter or margarine, salt, and vanilla. Beat until blended. Scrape bowl, and beat icing until it has a spreading consistency.
- Frost the cake, and sprinkle with chopped walnuts if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 184 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 14 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 62 mg |
| Sugars | 30 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made this recipe to top some chocolate cupcakes I made for my birthday (yes, i made my own cake!). The only change i made was to add more hot coffee so that it was more like an icing than a frosting and to get more coffee flavor. Big hit with the birthday crowd!
It was delicious! I made this for a yellow cake and it compliments the flavor perfectly
Awesome recipe! I have made it 3 times now. It’s a keeper for sure.
Made this for a chocolate cake. I frosted between the layers with a white buttercream, then used this recipe for the top and sides of the layer cake. It was a little runny, so I added about 1/4 cup more confectioners’ and chilled it for less than an hour. Still slightly runny, but really delicious. A keeper!
This is the first Allrecipes recipe with 4 or more stars that was disappointing to me. The flavor is delicious but way too thin. I even let the coffee cool first and didn’t melt the butter. I also let the batch chill for 2 hours to no avail; the consistency did not change at all.
Tastes pretty good but we had to double, probably even triple the amount of sugar so that way we could get the right consistency of frosting.
I would not recommend this frosting. It’s runny and it basically ruined my cake. I had to add SO much powdered sugar in order for it to even to be tolerable! The only good thing about it is that it has pretty good flavor
4 1/2 stars? I’m perplexed. I should have paid attention to the comments. It was running off the cake and I ended up adding extra sugar but that just made it a difficult consistency. The flavor was great but I need something that stays on the cake.
Followed the recipe. Was more glaze than icing. But I let it set on the cake over night and that was the key. Also added 1 ounce of kahlua.
I did have to add more sugar, cocoa power and vanilla to get it the right consistency
Best icing ever, subtle coffee taste but perfect…I used fresh Starbucks k cup coffee from the Keurig
I used the same ingredients and amounts. I did not use hot coffee just cold leftover from this morning. I may have used a little more than three cups of sugar and beat it to the consistency that I wanted. Iced a 9 by 11 cake. Loved the flavor, taste great on my chocolate cake. I baked the one bowl chocolate cake II from this site.
Not only was this absolutely delicious but the consistency was perfect. Only thing I did different than the recipe calls for was that I softened my butter rather than melting it.
Added More coffee to bump up the kick (also had to add more sugar)
Add cream cheese!! I had similar problems to others with the frosting being way too thin. I added more conf. sugar and was able to frost but it was WAY too sweet for me with very little coffee flavor. My guests said it was delish but I think they were just being nice. I wound up scraping off the frosting from the uneaten cupcakes and rewhipping with a block of cream cheese. OMG!!!! This was amazing. Can’t wait to take the leftovers into work tomorrow as I know I’ll get rave reviews. Even brought out the coffee flavor. Very happy after my initial disappointment.
Great recipe. For those who are saying it is more like a glaze, that is because you are following the recipe exactly and the person who wrote it made a slight error. The butter should NOT be melted but just softened. That will make frosting consistency.
omg! sooooo delicious…… even if it wasn’t thick enough.
Followed recipe exactly and it’s like soup.
While I agree with other reviews that the recipe as written it is thin and more like a thick glaze, the flavor was wonderful! I was actually looking for a thick glaze type icing for my banana oatmeal avocado flax seed cookies, so this worked out perfectly for my needs!
Made this today after looking for a chocolate icing recipe that didn’t require milk. This is easy and awesome. I made the recipe exactly as shown using special dark chocolate cocoa. It is perfect with the Nairobi Chocolate cake (also found on this site). Chocolate to die for!! Definitely a keeper!
Great flavor, way too thin, will not use this again.