Creamy Milk Chocolate Frosting

Name: Creamy Milk Chocolate Frosting
Yield: Makes about 2 cups
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, heavy cream; pinch, table salt; 1 tablespoon, light corn syrup (or dark); 10 ounces, milk chocolate, chopped; 1/2 cup, confectioners' sugar; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), cold, cut into 8 pieces

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2001

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

SERVESMakes about 2 cups

TIME15 minutes, plus 1 hour cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Since our simple creamy milk chocolate frosting recipe needs an hour to cool before it is thick enough to spread, we prepare it when our sheet cake comes out of the oven, so it will be ready when the cake is ready.

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