Today we made special cupcakes and tried a 'new-to-us' icing for the chocolate cupcakes. Fast! Good, depending on your tastes. Take one 8 oz container of frozen Cool Whip or the like. Place it in a microwave proof bowl. Add 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Microwave 1 min. Stir mixing it all together as much as possible. It will look like this.

 

These were the ingredients that we used. After the one minute in the microwave and the stirring, we placed it back into the microwave for an additional 30 seconds. Upon removal we stirred again until totally combined.

This is what it looked like after we were done mixing the melted chocolate chips and the melted topping together. We picked up the cupcakes and holding it upside down, dipped the tops of the cupcakes into the icing and twisted the cupcakes in a circular motion to coat the tops. It will set up a bit when it cools. We added sprinkles on the tops, but it really would be optional. Fast and easy! The taste is like the semi-sweet chocolate chips so if you are thinking a sweet frosting type, this isn't it. But it was good. Could probably also be used as a brownie topping.