Birthday cake chocolate icing help please...need to know ASAP!

[poppyboo]

I am making a chocolate victoria sandwhich for my little one's birthday...when I have made regular butter icing in the past with cocoa to make in chocolate it comes out a light brown colour and doesn't look very chocolate to me? How can I make a darker brown butter icing? Can I melt chocolate and leave it to cool a bit and stir that in or would that wreck the butter icing?
Please help!
(Love butter icing on cake but i doesn't look very good when I just stir in cocoa which has been dissolved in a bit of boiling water into the butter icing)

you could do ganache instead - I did it recently and it's much nicer, more chocolatey and darker. recipe here
if it's a kid cake though it might be too chocolately - some kids don;t like it too dark - though I don;t see why you couldn't make it with milk chocolate

Buy a tub of Betty Crocker choc fudge icing. I once spent ages slaving over hot pans to make chocolate fudge icing and it tasted exactly the same as betty Crocker's. It is bloody gorgeous.

Thank you for the link, i will have a look. She is definately a milk chocolate girl! Her birthday is tomorrow and she told me this morning she wants a chocolate cake!

Yes, in answer to your question, you can stir in melted chocolate.

I second the Betty Crocker comment though. It's delicious, and I bake a lot with everything made from scratch.

I tried the betty crocker vanilla icing last year and ending up throwing away whole cake b/c i didn't like the icing and re-baking another cake....I am a bit unsure of doig that again :/ but thank you for replying!

doig = doing
:)

The chocolate one is delicious. Honestly!