Description
Cool mint chocolate chip frosting brings classic dessert elegance to any cake or cupcake. Sweet cream cheese base and rich chocolate chips create a smooth, refreshing topping that will delight cake enthusiasts with its sophisticated flavor profile.
Ingredients
Scale
Dry Ingredients:
- 4 cups (16 ounces) powdered sugar
Fats and Dairy:
- 1 cup (2 sticks / 226 grams) butter, softened
- 3.5 ounces (100 grams) chopped chocolate bar or mini chocolate chips
Flavor and Color Enhancers:
- ½ teaspoon mint extract
- 1–2 tablespoons (15–30 milliliters) milk or cream
- 1–2 drops green food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare a mixer with a spacious mixing vessel, whipping the butter until it transforms into a pale, luxurious cream with a silky smooth texture.
- Gradually introduce powdered sugar, blending gently to prevent cloud-like sugar dispersal, allowing the mixture to develop a crumbly consistency.
- Pause the mixer and delicately scrape the bowl’s edges, ensuring all ingredients integrate seamlessly.
- Resume mixing at moderate speed, whipping the frosting until it becomes velvety and light, developing a cloud-like volume.
- Infuse the mixture with vibrant mint extract, adding a splash of dairy to enhance smooth consistency.
- Incorporate optional tinted coloring to create a delicate pastel or vivid hue that complements the mint essence.
- Gently fold chopped chocolate or miniature chocolate chips into the frosting, distributing them evenly to create delightful flavor pockets.
- Continue blending for a brief moment to ensure the chocolate elements are perfectly suspended throughout the creamy base.
Notes
- Whip butter thoroughly until it transforms into a pale, luxurious cream for the smoothest frosting texture.
- Gradually incorporate powdered sugar at low speed to prevent messy sugar clouds and ensure a silky consistency.
- Use high-quality mint extract for an authentic, refreshing flavor that doesn’t taste artificial or overwhelming.
- Add chocolate chips or chopped chocolate after mixing to create delightful bursts of chocolatey crunch throughout the frosting.
- Adjust milk or cream quantity carefully to control the frosting’s spreadability and achieve your desired piping or spreading consistency.
- Optional food coloring can enhance the mint frosting’s visual appeal, creating a soft pastel green that hints at its refreshing flavor profile.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 16
- Calories: 216
- Sugar: 22 g
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 34 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 31 mg