Katrina's Nutella Frosting

Easy Version

This is more of a glaze than a frosting, but for a quick and easy frosting it works beautifully!

Here we are with Annie.
She was our foreign-exchange student
from Germany almost 20 years ago.
She introduced us to Nutella.

10 oz. Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped             

1 T. unsweetened cocoa powder

1/3 cup heavy cream

1 T. Italian hazelnut liqueur (Frangelico)

Melt the chocolate with the heavy cream on top of a double boiler. Take the frosting off the heat and whisk in the cocoa powder until very smooth. Add the Frangelico and whisk again until smooth.

Pour over the top of the cake.

To make this recipe more like a frosting add 3-4 cups of sifted powdered sugar after the Frangelico and beat until stiff and smooth.

Using a box cake mix, splitting each of the 3 layers apart and filling them with Frangelica and Nutella makes for a very easy, very popular cake!