Must try.... Healthy Frosing Shots....

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Chocolate Frosting Shots!

by Chocolate-Covered Katie on January 16, 2012 http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com

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frosting shots

Healthy Frosting Shots?

Maybe you’ve heard of the popular bakery, Sprinkles? At this bakery, they sell something known as a frosting shot. It’s genius… How many times have you eaten a cupcake, only to say, “Gosh I wish this cupcake had less cake and more frosting”? Enter the frosting shot: a small glass filled to the brim (and beyond!) with—you guessed it—frosting.

Yesterday, I made my own frosting shots:

frosting glass

Thick Chocolate Frosting…

Try this on my delicious Healthy Chocolate Cupcakes.

Or skip the cupcake, like I did, and simply serve yourself a big glass of unadulterated chocolate bliss. Cupcakes? Who the heck needs ‘em when there’s rich, chocolatey frosting around? They’d just get in the way!

frosting bowl

Chocolate Mousse Frosting

(or just chocolate mousse)

1 can coconut milk
1/4 cup plus 1 T cocoa powder
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
sweetener to taste (I used a little stevia, but any dry sweetener will do.)

Open the coconut milk, and leave the can (or transfer to a bowl) uncovered in the fridge overnight. (Don’t shake the can before opening.) It should get very, very thick. (If it doesn’t, you’ve gotten a bad can that won’t work for the recipe. I highly recommend Thai Kitchen, or especially Thai Kitchen Organic.) Once thick, transfer to a bowl (you can opt to leave out the watery bit at the bottom of the can, if you want it even thicker) and whip in your cocoa, vanilla, and sweetener with a fork, or even beaters if you want to be fancy. (For the photos on this page, I didn’t use beaters. But I did pipe the mousse out using an icing tip.) Stored uncovered in the fridge, the mixture gets even thicker.

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