Ingredients
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
FOR LIGHT FLAVOUR
3 tbsp hershey's cocoa
FOR MEDIUM FLAVOUR
1/3 cup hershey's cocoa
FOR DARK FLAVOUR
2/3 cup hershey's cocoa
Directions
Melt butter in small saucepan over medium heat. Add amount of cocoa
for flavour you prefer. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly,
until mixture just begins to boil. Remove from heat. Pour into small
mixer bowl; cool completely. Add confectioner's sugar alternately
with milk, beating to spreading consistency. Blend in vanilla.
From Hershey's Chocolate Classics ISBN 1-56173-361-X
Servings: 2 cups
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