Sausage that’s been grilled with soft red potatoes, an onion, and green beans. Cooking this dish on the barbecue in a foil package is simple. Additionally, cleanup is simple!
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 2 cups |
Ingredients
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 ¾ cups confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
- Melt chocolate and the butter together. Let cool and blend in the sour cream, vanilla, and salt. Gradually add the confectioner’s sugar until the frosting is of spreading consistency, beat well.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 172 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Cholesterol | 11 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 62 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Hubs made this for my birthday. Loved sour cream chocolate frosting as a kid and it was a wonderful treat. Thank you for the recipe!
Love this recipe! I do not like super sweet frosting. This is the best chocolate frosting I’ve made. I did 1 1/2xrecipe I used 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips and a stick of butter. 3/4 cups sour cream. Then I added sugar until it stuck to the side of the bowl. Delicious!
Very smooth but a little too sweet, too milk chocolate flavored for our taste. Maybe I will try with dark chocolate chips instead.
Excellent results!! And taste awesome
Super creamy and chocolaty. I used it on the zucchini chocolate cake I made from another recipe on this site. My mom and I have our birthdays 4 days apart so we’ve always made our own cake. This must be at least 50 years we’ve celebrated together like this. ??
Very good icing! I can’t stand store-bought icing or most buttercream icings. The sour cream adds such a great flavor to this one! I doubled the recipe to ice a 3-layer cake and that was just the right amount of icing. I decreased the confectioners sugar by just a 2/3 cup total and I added about 5 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa as I was making it because I did agree with other reviewers that it could use a stronger chocolate taste. Otherwise followed the rest of the directions and it came out great!
Very tasty. Doubled recipe but next time will mix with a mixer as the sugar was a bit lumpy, but didn’t change the flavor.
I made this and after looking at reviews, cut down the powdered sugar considerably; I first put 1 cup of sugar in, tasted the frosting & adjusted from there. I also didn’t have any sour cream so I used plain yogurt. The results were I had a frosting that wasn’t overly sweet, and had a nice tang to it from the yogurt. I would definitely use the yogurt again. And I’d like to try one of the reviewers’ suggestion who used semi-sweet baking chocolate; I don’t like using chocolate chips a lot but that’s all I had this time. All in all a good basic recipe to begin with.
Easy and delicious!
This is good stuff. I made 1 and a half batch and it was enough to frost a ten inch, two layer cake and also pipe the edges.
Great recipe – doesn’t need to be tweaked. Thanks for sharing!
So happy for the reviews. I didn’t have chips so I was able to use the cocoa powder I had. Just added enough sugar to my taste.
My go to frosting, perfect every time. I only use 1 3/4 cups confectioners otherwise too sweet.
I usually make chocolate cream cheese frosting but didn’t have any cream cheese on hand. I came across this recipe and decided to give it a try. I wasn’t disappointed! It has a very similar tang to cream cheese icing. I don’t like a very sweet icing, so I added the sugar is small batches until the sweetness was to my liking. I also sifted in a couple of tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa to boost the chocolate flavour. This is a great frosting for spreading (not for piping). I will definitely be making this again!
This recipe needs a lot of changes… it’s way to sweet. I had a delicious cake made and I put this stuff on it and it totally was ruined
I used recommendations in the comments. I substituted unsweetened baking chocolate and added 2T dark coffee. Far less sweet that way with a great chocolate flavor. The sour cream gives it a great flavor sensation for those who enjoy trying new flavor combinations. Easy texture to ice the cake. Pretty cake without even trying very hard.
I made it just like the recipe said but after tasting it decided to add more melted butter/chocolate because it was too sugary for my taste.
Delicious! I did make the following changes: used bittersweet chocolate chips, added 2 oz of unsweetened chocolate, decreased sugar to 2 cups. Wonderful!
This might be my favorite chocolate frosting. It’s not overly sweet and the sour cream adds just the right touch of tanginess to make it interesting. I also appreciate how quickly it comes together. I follow the recipe exactly.
I got a lot of compliments on this frosting. I, however, am not a big fan of sour cream frosting and didn’t think about it until I tasted it. It definitely makes it tangy. With that said, I am a buttercream frosting fan but this frosting really added a richness to the whole cake.
Easy ! Light flavour which was a nice change from traditional chocolate icing.