Mom's Chocolate Frosting

This is what I am eating as I type this here little diddy up.

I swear if I would stop making desserts I would drop 10 pounds like that.  Anyway since Mondays no longer seem to be for memories and milestones, I figured I'd carry on the tradition and share another recipe.  This one is courtesy of my mother.  First let me give a bit of a back story of how recipes go in our family, frankly put they're a joke.  There is this baked macaroni and cheese that we all make.  I first knew it as Aunt Jane's macaroni but whenever you would ask for the recipe she would say "there isn't one".  Then my mother started making it, again same story "there isn't a recipe".  Oh they've both gotten my sister and I in the kitchen and tried to show us how to make it, but for some reason a recipe just doesn't exist.  Now I will say last summer when my aunt came into town she started a story about giving the recipe to someone at work only to end it with "there isn't a recipe".  So in the end what you do is stick to their instructions, some what, and add in a bit of your own little touch (your own little touch being prayer, and lots of it) and poof you have baked macaroni.

So back to my mother's recipe.  I call her up on Saturday and ask how she makes her chocolate frosting.  "Oh it's real simple"  Of course it is mother...oh God another one of these!  So she proceeds to tell me, loosely this is how...

{ First you get a half stick of butter, then some powdered sugar, a dash of salt, hot milk (just a little, you'll know when you add it), cocoa powder (you'll know, if it's not brown enough add some more), oh and vanilla don't forget the vanilla. }

So that's it.  She gave me a list of flipping ingredients.  A list of ingredients to basically any chocolate frosting out there mind you.  Would someone like to tell me how brown is brown enough for frosting?  Oh oh, slight correction, I did ask if this would frost a 3 layer cake and she said "better use a whole stick, I would do two dashes of salt then".  Thanks mom.

I don't know, can anyone tell me, is it brown enough?

Here is what I came up with...

Mom's Chocolate Frosting

1/2 cup of butter

powdered sugar (I honestly didn't keep track of how much, I think it was about 2 cups)

2 1/2 tablespoons cocoa powder (I had dark, so that's what I used, it may be different with regular)

2 dashes of salt

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1/4 cup warm milk

So cream the butter and some powdered sugar together.  Add in the cocoa powder, salt, and vanilla.  Add some milk.  Then add more powdered sugar and milk until you get the taste and consistency that you want.  

Like I said that's what I got, but I was too busy trying not to forget the list of ingredients that my mother gave me I didn't remember to jot down the amounts I used.  So follow the recipe at your own risk.