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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Katie
I love the sweet frosting against the cake, but too many frostings are too sweet and piled too high. I am definitely trying this recipe though as it sounds delish–lightly sweetened with stevia (as I am on an acd diet I have really changed my taste for sweets!).
My kids, however, have always been in the lick-all-the-colored-super-sweetened-hydrogenated-oil off the top of cupcakes and then throw out the cake school (they especially love the doughy pasty store-bought sugar cookies with seasonal frosting that are always greeting us in the grocery store entry way). A cup of frosting would be their idea of heaven.
Love love love your recipes
Ann
Oh do try it with just a little stevia! It tastes so good just barely sweetened– it’s like rich, bittersweet mousse :).
FROSTING! so I must say I actually like to combine both (with more frosting than cupcake ;)).
I love you and your recipes so much, you have no idea. And I am glad your blog is working again!
Looks so good,but I don’t like coconut.Can another ingredient be used instead of coconut milk?
I don’t know of any.
Maybe a can of evaporated milk…if you aren’t vegan that is…of course I really don’t know what I’m talking about but it seems like it might match consistency 🙂
I’m dying right now. Frosting is my favorite part of any cake or cupcake. I must try this! Anything to get me away from those delectible frosting tub…
OH. MY. GOD. Will you marry me? Okay, I’m not gay, but still. Frosting is literally my favorite food in the whole world. I LOVE IT. Hahaha This is fantastic! And I prefer cake actually, over cupcakes or just frosting, because typically it has layers and thus a more even frosting to cake ratio. Yes, I think about frosting too much.
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I do healthful cooking as well. Maybe we can team up on something. Again, great job. Excited to make those decadent looking frosting shots.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? These….look amazing. I just started using coconut whipped cream, I wrote a post about cleaning up whipped topping (yuck) and using natural alternatives. These look simply amazing and thank you so much for all you do!!! I’m not big on the dessert front so I have been telling everyone about your recipes! Thank you!
this is a must make recipe! thanks for another winner
Looking forward to trying this.
Any chance you might make it easier to print your recipes out? That would be helpful.
Also, I would love a recipe for healthy ice cream. Hint hint. 🙂
It’s on my to-do list! Right now, my BIG concern is trying to fix my site… people are telling me they keep getting error messages on posts that DO exist. So unfortunately, that’s taking up the bulk of my time right now. But hopefully I can figure that out soon so I can move on to more fun things… like installing a “print” widget .
Looks luscious! I only have low-fat coconut milk in the house. Will that work or does it have to be full fat?
I think it has to be full-fat.