"Michael" > wrote in message
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> Kimberly wrote:
>
> Wow, big cake! I hope you're having plenty of company to help eat it?
> I love the Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate cake. If you like that one,
> you'll
> also like the Black Magic cake and/or the Deep Dark Chocolate cake.
> What
> icing are you making for this one?
>
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> I called the icing "cocoa crunch." It was supposed to be just the
> Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Icing, but after I poured the cocoa in
> on top of the butter, I decided I needed to melt the butter down a
> bit. I microwaved the cocoa along with the butter and a lot of it
> hardened up into little chunks that 4 hours of hand-beating (alright,
> maybe not quite that long) failed to break up. Cocoa crunch. Gotta
> love it.
>
> And thank you for the suggestions on the other cakes. I'll look
> around for recipes for them.
>
> Michael

Michael,

The mousse filling/frosting was just made by melting chocolate with a little
bit of cream, allowing to cool a little bit, then folding into whipped
cream. Easy, silky, rich and yummy!
For the cream cheese frosting you need 8 ounces of cream cheese, 1/2 stick
of butter (both softened at room temp), 3-5 cups of powdered sugar, and 1-3
tbsp milk. The variation comes in how soft or stiff you want the icing. To
make it chocolate, melt the butter in the microwave *then* whisk in 1/2 cup
of cocoa. Add to the cream cheese and powdered sugar with 1 tbsp milk. Add
more sugar or milk to adjust consistency.
To make it orange, leave out the chocolate, and don't melt the butter. Just
combine the ingredients, adding orange juice in place of milk, and 1/2 tsp
orange oil OR 1 tsp ornage extract. You can also add fine orange peel as
well.

hope this helps!
kimberly

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