Recipe: Creamy Chocolate Icing (using evaporated milk, 1960's)

CREAMY CHOCOLATE ICING

1 (6 oz.) package semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup undiluted Carnation Evaporated Milk

Melt chocolate pieces with butter; cool thoroughly. 

Blend in confectioners' sugar alternately with undiluted Carnation. Beat well to spreading consistency. Spread on top of cooled cake. 

Makes icing for 9x13-inch cake

SERVING SUGGESTION:
Top chocolate sheet cake prepared from mix with Creamy Chocolate Icing recipe above. Mark top of iced cake into four parts. Use chopped nuts on one, add chopped peppermint candies to another. Leave one plain for "chocolate on chocolate" lovers and add toasted coconut to the remaining quarter. 

Source: Vintage Recipe Booklet: Cooking with a Surprising Difference, Carnation Milk, 1966

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