[gloomcookie]

I'm going to bake a chocolate cake for New Year's day dinner and my mother and I were discussing the dilemma I run into in getting my icings/frostings too sweet. In order to thicken a frosting I get bogged down in adding confectioner's sugar and it ends up too sweet. Then I add more cocoa and it seems to wreck the proportions to the point that the frosting just doesn't taste right.

In the course of the conversation she mentioned my grandma used to use baker's chocolate...and I remembered using Chocobake, a liquid baking chocolate in packets, made by Nestle. There was a recipe for frosted brownies on the box and as I recall the frosting was a perfect balance of sweet and chocolate. After a little research, I think Nestle ceased making Chocobake in 1998. Drat!

Does anyone know of an equivalent product? I've religiously avoided buying the squares and doing the whole melting bit and would still like to avoid this if possible.

If no one has an equivalent to suggest, would anyone have a recipe for chocolate frosting that isn't too sweet?

Thanks!

Gloomcookie