Grandma Welsman's Chocolate Icing

I like to make a cake for MDS's birthday. For his 46th birthday, I made this delicious chocolate icing to accompany a yellow layer cake. This recipe comes from Grandma Holmes's recipes, and Grandma Welsman is MDS's great-grandmother. 

This frosting is excellent, especially with yellow cake, but would also work with a nice chocolate cake or on sugar cookies. Although it is called chocolate icing, it is more like a frosting than a standard icing because it does not really harden the way that icings can. On the recipe card photo below, the edits noted are from Grandma Holmes. I used the full recipe amounts to use for a triple layer cake, but the amount can be adjusted as needed. Like many recipes from that time period, it calls for margarine, but I prefer using real butter.

Grandma Welsman's Chocolate Icing 

• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 6 Tbsp. milk
• 3 squares of chocolate
• t tsp. vanilla
• 1 stick butter

Melt chocolate and butter together. Add to sugar, milk, and vanilla; beat until smooth. Spread on cake. Enjoy!