Sometimes I just crave chocolate cake. And no cake is worth its flour if it doesn’t have a decadent (fairly healthy) frosting. These two frosting recipes are over the top (and out of the world) delicious. While I can’t recommend that you make these once a week, or even once a month — when you need a frosting — you need to be able to make it with decent ingredients (no lard or crisco or hydrogenated vegetable oil).

The chocolate buttercream frosting recipe could be made with coconut oil (and coconut milk) if you wanted a vegan variety, but it gets too hard in the refrigerator and too soft at room temperature. A compromise would be to store the cake in the fridge, but let it sit on the counter an hour or so before serving. But, I prefer butter in this recipe.

The chocolate whipped frosting is very versatile. It can be used as a whipped frosting, a cake filling, or as a self-contained chocolate mousse dessert.

If you are looking for something interesting to frost: try my chocolate quinoa cupcake recipe. I’ll be putting up a chocolate beet cake recipe (that my daughter perfected) in a couple of weeks.

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Buttercream Calorie and Cost Analysis (yield will frost one cake)

Ingredients (organic)	Cost	Calories
Butter (Trader Joe’s)	$1.25	810
Powdered Sugar (Trader Joe’s)	$3.00	1440
Cocoa Powder (Amazon)	$1.02	252
Half and Half (Trader Joe’s)	$0.25	80
Vanilla (Thrive Market)	$0.31	12
————-	——–	———
Total	$5.83	2594

$5.83 is a small price to pay for a healthier (and delicious) chocolate buttercream frosting.

Ingredients (organic):

• 1/2 cup (one stick) Butter (substitute coconut oil if you prefer vegan)
• 3 cups Powder Sugar, sifted
• 2/3 cup Cocoa Powder, sifted
• 1/4 cup Half and Half (substitute coconut milk if you prefer vegan)
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

Directions:

• Melt butter (or coconut oil)
• Whisk in cocoa
• Scrape cocoa mixture into mixing bowl
• Blend in sugar and half and half (or coconut milk), alternating about 3 times (add more or less liquid or sugar if needed for desired consistency)
• When well mixed and fluffy, mix in vanilla extract
• Use frosting while mixture is warm or room temperature

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Whipped Chocolate Frosting

Whipped Frosting Calorie and Cost Analysis (yield will frost one cake, fill two, or serve 4)

Ingredients (organic)	Cost	Calories
Whipping Cream (Trader Joe’s)	$3.99	1600
Powdered Sugar (Trader Joe’s)	$1.00	480
Cocoa Powder (Amazon)	$0.58	120
————-	——–	———
Total	$5.57	2200
Yield: one cake	$5.57	2200
Yield: fill two cakes (per cake)	$2.79	1100
Yield: 4 servings chocolate mousse (per serving)	$1.39	550

This recipe is slightly lower in calories and cost. But it is pretty close. The sugar content on this recipe is much lower, however. Both are equally decadent and a great price for an organic (semi) healthy frosting.

Ingredients (organic):

• 1 pint Whipping Cream
• 1 cup Powder Sugar, sifted
• 6 tbsp. Cocoa Powder, sifted

Directions:

• Whisk together ingredients until well blended
• Whip ingredients together in stand mixer (or with hand mixer) until desired consistency (see next step)
• Whip until it has a strong set — but before it turns to butter
• For cake: frost one cake
• For filling: fill two cakes
• For mousse: serve four – 1 cup servings

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