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Chocolate Ganache Icing

This chocolate cake icing recipe is from Martha Stewart. Although of course this easy chocolate icing can be used as a homemade cake icing for any cake, this particular choclate ganache icing recipe is included here as a chocolate frosting recipe for the Buche de Noel Recipe (French Yule Log Cake). If you want a sweeter chocolate frosting to use for a different chocolate cake recipe, just use sweeter chocolate, but this gives you the basics on how to make homemade chocolate frosting from scratch.

Chop chocolate into small pieces, and place in a medium bowl.

Heat cream until bubbles begin to appear around the edges (scalding); pour over chocolate.

Let stand 5 minutes, then stir until smooth. Refrigerate until cold but not solid, stirring occasionally.