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Yummy Chocolate Frosting

How fast the summer goes... poof! The kids are back in school and I have a little time on my hands. I wanted to share this wonderful frosting recipe  because I am terrible at making frosting and this recipe is very good and extremely forgiving. Let me explain. This recipe uses Crisco as the base. I know, I know... but once in a while, we should indulge. It calls for one cup of Crisco. I had purchased the Crisco in stick form. What I didn't realize is that I used two cups of Crisco! Somehow I equated two sticks of Crisco as to how two sticks of butter equal one cup. (Crisco sticks are one cup each.) Could have been a huge disaster, but it wasn't. Needless to say, I didn't' realize my mistake until I was making the frosting for another party and I happen to look down at the Crisco label. Yikes! But you know what, it didn't matter, the frosting recipe is so forgiving. It still tasted light and fluffy and delicious with the extra shortening.  I think this recipe