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chocolate chips = frosting

Aug 23rd, 2011 by

Y’all know about this, right?

Pretend you’ve baked a cake or some brownies, and you’re either too lazy to make frosting or you don’t have time to wait for the cake to cool. (Frosting a hot cake is a sad, sad thing to do…the frosting melts and runs and makes a mess. A hot mess.)

It’s easy to picture not having time to wait for a cake to cool. People are always suddenly having birthdays, it seems. Birthdays always seem to sneak up on the unsuspecting Damsel.

This works especially well for cakes served right out of the pan–like a Texas sheet cake.

Immediately after taking the cake/brownies from the oven, sprinkle a bunch of chocolate chips across the surface. For a Texas sheet cake, 2 cups was not too much.

Wait a few minutes and test the chocolate chips to see if they are all melty by taking a knife and attempt to gently spread them. When they are perfectly melty and soft, the chocolate chips will spread just like frosting. Proceed across the surface, using a gentle hand because the cake is hot and not as firm as a cool cake.

The Damsel really likes this because she’s a dark chocolate girl, and semi-sweet chocolate chips are “darker” than most regular frostings. Less sweet, more chocolatey. Mmmmm. If you are less hard-core about dark chocolate, you could always use milk chocolate chips. The Damsel will try not to judge.

After the cake is very cool, the frosting may crack when you cut it. To prevent this, eat the whole cake while it’s still warm. This is the Damsel’s wish for you.

Posted in baking

  • Susan

    No, I hadn’t heard about this! What a wonderful idea!!

    • Anonymous

      let me know if you try it!

  • Adrienne

    I LOVE frosting brownies this way.  The best is getting andes mint chips or just break up andes mints.  Mint chocolate brownies… Heaven.  :)

    • Anonymous

      Good grief! That sounds FANTASTIC.

  • Rockymento

    I like your thinking? Did you check out modifications to an ultimate chocolate chip cookie on cooking with rockymento? You will love it!

    • Anonymous

      OO, I will check that out! Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    You are a dangerous woman to follow.  You have tapped into my deep, dark, chocolate frosting fantasies and shown them for all of the world to see.

    *ahem*  Sorry.

    This sounds sooooo delicious.  I’ll probably have to use more than just two cups though…because a whole lot of chips will end up in my mouth instead of on the cake.

    • Anonymous

      oh man. I know what you mean. I love to snack on them…one little burst of chocolate at a time. …sigh…

  • http://www.sideofsneakers.com Heather

    SO smart!!

  • Kristl Story

    Yummy!  I always have a giant bag of chocolate chips from Costco!  Now you’ve got me thinking about all the different flavors of frosting that could be created from melted chips…butterscotch, peanut butter, mmmmm!

    • Anonymous

      hey, that’s true! I hadn’t thought about the other flavors, although the mint chocolate chips crossed my mind….oh man…

    • Maria

      Andes mints… it’s worth the effort to get them out of their paper wrappers.

      • Anonymous

        Oh Andes. My downfall.

  • http://twitter.com/alisonjgolden Alison Golden

    Funny how those birthdays spring up out of nowhere isn’t it? What we could do if we had 12 months notice. :-) I like this idea. Although I don’t frost cakes these days, it seems a much better idea than the tubs of junk we get in the store. You could also try some quality dark chocolate – that way it could be a health food (nearly!)

  • http://www.ithoughtiknewmama.com I Thought I Knew Mama

    Another amazing tip! Thanks!

  • Amy Liles

    You had me at dark chocolate.  I will eat it warm.  Every last morsel. 

  • http://twitter.com/CreativeBoomer Ann

    “Eat the whole chocolate cake while it’s still warm” I like that advice!

  • Mimi

    That’s so crazy easy! I love it. I always have those on hand, not frosting!

  • Gigi927

    you always have the most amazing tips!

    • Anonymous

      Thanks, Gigi! Anything to do with chocolate is GOOD WITH ME.

  • Krista

    Hee hee. I love the chocolate chip frosting trick. And it still surprises people.

    • Anonymous

      I know! I’m surprised how many people haven’t heard of it.

  • Hawaiianobsession

    Margot…you crack me up.  No need to judge here.  I like the chocolatey taste of semi-sweet!!!  :)

    • Anonymous

      Thanks, Nadine! It’s nice to see you attending Old School. :)

      • Hawaiianobsession

        Yeah…I guess I could always use a little edyucashun.  :)   Plus, it’s a chance to connect with my sweet friend who I never get to see.

  • esther douek

    yumm, thanx for sharing

  • http://www.almostallthetruth.com Brenna @ Almost All The Truth

    Um, now you have me wanting cake. It sounds so good, and what a neat trick!

    • Anonymous

      If only cake would qualify as a leafy green vegetable! LOL!

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  • Lauren G

    I totally love this! I do andes mints on brownies all the time. Another way to enjoy some chocolate goodness is to make a chocolate ganache, which I like warm or cooled (or by the spoonful). If you’ve never done it before, you warm up a cup of cream on the stove until it almost boils (make sure it doesn’t scorch), then you take it off the stove, add two cups of chocolate chips or chopped chocolate (dark, semi-sweet, what ever you prefer), and let it sit for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, stir until it’s all combined.You can use it to frost a cake, or you can let it cool, then whip it up to make a filling. Also, you can whip it up, scoop it into balls, freeze it, and then dip them in candy coating to make home made truffles. Adding flavored extracts is pretty awesome too (mint, raspberry, rum, orange, etc).

    • Anonymous

      Good grief! I’m totally doing this. Perhaps a future post. Err, maybe today. THANKS!!

  • http://losingcreekfarm.blogspot.com/ Jenny

    Ok, so I am reading along thinking “How does she solve the problem of the chips hardening when they cool off?”

    “To prevent this, eat the whole cake while it’s still warm. This is the
    Damsel’s wish for you.”

    LOL!  I should have known, but of course, so simple.

    Now I have to go make some brownies with chocolate “frosting”, which must be eaten warm….

  • JenniferAniston

    Wow I asked for NO chocolate chips