Thick, smooth, creamy, and decadently rich, these chocolate frosting shots are a chocolate lover’s dream dessert!
Dark chocolate frosting shots
Whip up this super easy, four ingredient recipe in under five minutes!
Use the thick chocolate frosting to top cakes, cupcakes, or brownies. Or serve in elegant glasses and eat it by the spoonful.
Oh yes, creamy chocolate frosting with nothing else to get in the way.
After all, how many times have you eaten a cupcake and thought, “I really wish this cupcake had less cake and more chocolate frosting”?
Also try this popular Chocolate Mug Cake
Enter the frosting shot.
A small shot glass is filled beyond the brim with swirls of luxuriously smooth and rich dark chocolate frosting.
And the best part?
This homemade chocolate frosting calls for just a few basic ingredients, yet party guests are always impressed at the recipe.
The chocolate frosting shots are equally beautiful and delicious.
Chocolate dessert recipe video
Above – watch the step by step video how to make chocolate frosting shots
In the months since I first made this recipe, vegans, non vegans, healthy eaters, and people who are used to traditional desserts have all gone completely wild for the easy-to-make, smooth and rich chocolate frosting.
It is highly recommended!
Ways to use this chocolate frosting
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate frosting shot ingredients
Coconut Milk: Look for full fat coconut milk, not lite coconut milk. Refrigerated coconutmilk beverage will also not work here. It must be the canned type.
Cocoa Powder: Your chocolate mousse shots will be as good as your cocoa powder, so choose a high quality brand if you can. For best chocolatey flavor, I like to use a fourth cup of regular unsweetened cocoa powder and one tablespoon of Dutch cocoa to make up the five tablespoons called for in the recipe. Raw cacao powder also works.
Pure Vanilla Extract: It is important to use pure vanilla here. Do not buy imitation vanilla, which has an artificial aftertaste. You can substitute the seeds of one vanilla bean or one teaspoon of vanilla bean paste if desired.
Sweetener: The chocolate frosting shots will be thickest with either powdered sugar or powdered no sugar sweetener. If you do not mind a result that is not quite as thick and fluffy, you may also use stevia, pure maple syrup, honey, or agave.
The easy chocolate dessert recipe can be raw, keto, paleo, soy free, dairy free, gluten free, egg free, tree nut free, and sugar free.
For a vanilla version, use this recipe for Coconut Whipped Cream.
How to make the fancy party dessert
Either refrigerate your coconut milk overnight, or open the can and freeze for about ten minutes. I always store a can in the fridge so the recipe is almost instant.
Once chilled, open the can and add only the thick coconut cream to a mixing bowl. Discard the coconut water or save it for a different recipe.
With either a stand mixer or hand beaters, whip the coconut cream until it is thick, smooth, and ultra fluffy.
Add the cocoa powder, sweetener, and vanilla extract.
Whip again to incorporate all of the ingredients. Stop whipping once the texture resembles chocolate mousse.
Serve in bowls, jars, or shot glasses.
If you want to be extra fancy, you can add the coconut chocolate frosting to a piping bag and pipe it out with an icing tip.
Tips and troubleshooting
While it is rare, you may encounter a can of coconut milk that is either rock hard and chalky or watery and not firm at all.
I like to always keep two cans from different brands on hand just in case one of the cans is a dud.
If you do not own a stand mixer or hand beaters, you can technically stir everything together by hand with a lot of arm strength. The results will not be as fluffy but the taste is still rich and chocolatey.
Try the recipe as frosting for my Keto Chocolate Cake or Vegan Chocolate Cake.
Store leftovers very loosely covered in the refrigerator. This chocolate mousse frosting will get even thicker the longer it sits.
Chocolate Frosting Shots
Ingredients
- 1 can coconut milk or coconut cream
- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener of choice to taste (Use powdered sugar or sugar free powdered sweetener for thickest results)
Instructions
- Refrigerate the coconut milk can until cold. Once chilled, open the can and transfer only the creamy part to a bowl, discarding the water. Whip with beaters or a stand mixer (or a lot of arm strength and a fork) until thick and fluffy. Add the other ingredients, and whip again. Serve in bowls or glasses. Stored very loosely covered in the fridge, it will get even thicker. *While it's rare, you may find a can of coconut milk that is either rock hard and chalky or watery and not thick at all. I recommend keeping two cans from different brands in the refrigerator at all times just in case.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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I am not having any luck with this recipe, but I also need someone to draw me a picture when it comes to instructions. The only canned coconut milk I could find (4 different brands), did not say “full fat”, but did have a lite version which I didn’t buy. Does the milk need to be chilled, do I whip it before adding other ingredients? Help! I really want to try this.
Thanks
I may be mistaken, but I don’t think any of the Coconut MILK will say full fat. (That would be coconut cream.)
It is very hard to know before you open the can if it will have enough fat, or too much “water”. You were right in not buying the lite.
Yes, the milk should be chilled before trying to make the frosting/mousse. After it is chilled carefully dip out the thick layer leaving any “water” (milk) behind. Different people make it differently, but I find the best method is to actually beat the “cream” with a mixer (stand or hand either one). Add the cocoa & sweetener(s) as you first start to mix (slowly). Then whip like you would whipped cream (assuming you know how to whip cream). Do not over beat! If it is thick enough that it looks like it can stand more liquid, I slowly add in some or all (depending on how much it starts to thin out) of the rest of the liquid.
Some cans of milk will not have enough cream to whip. That is just the way it is, and is what has been referred to here as a “bad” can. But it will make good chocolate milk or milk shake.
Hope that helps!
What if the coconut milk is in a frozen state instead of mousse after being put into the fridge???
Maybe the fridge settings are too cold? I had it happen once, when it was in the very back of the fridge and the fridge settings were too cold.
What Katie said! It will still be good tho!!!! Now you have a nice frozen dessert!!
I just made these with Golden Star Coconut milk from walmart. It was the cheap brand. Amazingly it worked well and the milk came out of the can mostly solid with only a little liquid
can cream of coconut or light coconut milk be substituted?
cream of coconut can! 🙂
not lite, though.
Any help on making it thicken? I am staring at my soupy mess right now and I have no idea what I did wrong, I followed every instruction. It is also unedibly bitter! I had such high hopes, everyone has good reviews.. How can I fix this?
What size can of coconut milk, please? I just bought a 13.5 ounce can today, but I know it comes in smaller cans, too. Thanks.
That should work fine!
I think mine are around 15oz.
This recipe looks great! I actually tried it this weekend, but bought the low fat version of coconut milk by mistake. It didn’t work out for frosting because like you said it was too thin. But it smelled and tasted so good that I poured it into a Popsicle mold and froze it. My kids loved it! We had Chocolate Frosting Pops! I will be trying the recipe a the right way next time. Thank you Katie and keep posting your great recipes!
Who knew I would be addicted to coconut just like that?
I’m in love <3
Thanks Katie!
I tried this exact recipe with Coconut creme & it came out amazing!! My boyfriend and I put it on rice cakes topped with cut fresh strawberries!! yum!!! We have some left over and imagining all the variety of things will we do with it next =)
I am so Happy this doesnt have any type of soy in it as I am highly allergic. I just adore coconut milk and almond milk though. Thank you so much and I am so very happy to have found your blog.