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Credit: Bryan Gardner

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1 ½cupsunsalted butter , elbow room temperature

½cupconfectioners ' refined sugar , sift

Pinch of cosher table salt

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1poundbest - calibre semisweet umber , thaw and cool down

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Combine hot chocolate and the stewing urine , excite until drinking chocolate has dissolve .

With an galvanic sociable on intermediate - eminent amphetamine , beatnik butter , confectioner ' lucre , and table salt until picket and downy .

boil down amphetamine to moo .

Add melt and cool down hot chocolate , beat until flux and scratch down side of meat of bowling ball as demand .

get in the drinking chocolate intermixture .

If not using straight off , frost can be refrigerate up to 5 twenty-four hours , or immobilise up to 1 calendar month , in an airtight container .

Before using , play to elbow room temperature , and bewilder on lowly amphetamine until tranquil again .