Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting + Video
This is the BEST Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting! Silky smooth and creamy, yet thick and sturdy enough for piping on cakes or cupcakes. It’s super easy to make and not too sweet.
I’ve gotten many requests for a chocolate version of my BEST cream cheese frosting recipe, so I’m very happy to share this chocolate cream cheese frosting recipe today.
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
My recipe for regular cream cheese frosting uses a good amount of butter and way less powdered sugar than most recipes, which keeps it from going soft and stringy.
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To make chocolate cream cheese frosting, I simply added unsweetened cocoa powder and just one more cup of powdered sugar from my original cream cheese frosting recipe. Still less sugar than most other recipes, but perfectly sweet. It’s rich and chocolatey, but still has that tang we all know and love from the cream cheese.
You’ll definitely want to sift your cocoa and powdered sugar for this chocolate cream cheese frosting so there are no obvious clumps. This will also help ensure a smooth, velvety texture.
I recommend these large round sifters that I used in bakeries to make sifting quick and easy. TIP: Sift ingredients onto a piece of parchment paper. Then bring both ends together to create an easy pour spout to empty the contents.
If buttercream is too sweet for you, then give this chocolate cream cheese frosting a try. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. It goes great on my Chocolate Cupcakes. I’m thinking it would also be really good on my Chocolate Zucchini Cake. Yum!
More Cream Cheese Frostings:
- The BEST Cream Cheese Frosting
- Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
- Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
- Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
- Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 8 oz (226 g) block-style cream cheese, cold
- ½ cup (113 g) salted or unsalted butter, (1 stick) room temperature
- ½ cup (40 g) unsweetened cocoa, (not hot chocolate mix)
- 2 cups (240 g) powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Measure, then sift the cocoa and powdered sugar together. Set aside.
- Place the cream cheese in a large mixing bowl.
- Using an electric hand mixer, beat until smooth.
- Gradually add the butter 2 Tablespoons at a time, and continue beating until smooth and well blended.
- Add the powdered sugar/cocoa mixture and vanilla all at once. Blend until combined and smooth. Use for any recipe that calls for chocolate cream cheese frosting.
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My husband’s 72nd birthday and our zucchini is growing crazy. In celebration I made a zucchini bunt cake like my beloved Mother-in-law used to make. Then decided I wanted a glaze looked up a recipe and it seemed simple enough but ugh it didn’t work at all, my first recipe on Pinterest that failed. So who doesn’t like cream cheese frosting so off I went with your recipe so simple, quick. and beautiful. Thanks!
Glad my recipe worked out for your bundt cake Sandy! Happy birthday to your hubby!
Absolutely delicious never made chocolate cream cheese icing before until now this is amazing. I made brownies/brownie cupcake cupcakes, and topped it with this perfect.
Yay! I’m so glad to hear that you loved it! Thanks for taking the time to leave your review for this recipe!
I used it to frost a Bundt cake. I used chocolate instant pudding mix instead of the cocoa. I used French vanilla creamer to get the right consistency. I spread it on the cake and then refrigerated it until serving. Delicious
I’m glad your substitutions worked out!
This was very good I used a little less powder sugar I would make it again.
Best frosting ever 😋 It’s my go to recipe.