Blanche’s Never-Fail Chocolate Icing

This marvelous little recipe makes an outstanding, fudgy icing with very little effort. It sets up smooth and luscious, a neat and inviting finish for any cake. This is one of many excellent recipes Blanche Williams of Durham, North Carolina, contributed to Watts Cooking Now?, a fund-raising cookbook compiled by the Watts Street Baptist Church. Have the cake layers handy so that you can spread the icing over them as soon as it is ready.