Easy To Love Chocolate Icing - February, 2020.

Home-made sweet-treats are the perfect Valentine gift. Bake your specialty (brownies?) and top with this amazing icing.

Add a few red-hots, if you dare.
Love doesn’t get better than this.

• Ingredients
• 4 ounces of your favorite semisweet/bittersweet (at least 50% cacao) chocolate cut into uniform small pieces
• 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter cut into uniform pieces
• 3 tablespoons half and half
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar

• Directions
• Melt the chocolate and butter over low heat in a small heavy-bottomed saucepan.
• Stir constantly. Remove the pan from heat.
• With a whisk, whip in the half and half and vanilla.
• Measure and then sift the confectioners’ sugar directly into the saucepan
• Beat until well combined and smooth.
• Let cool. Top off your treats!
• Makes a little over 1 cup