Help needed: Chocolate frosting with cocoa powder

[Chris Hennes]

I'm making another cooking video, this time about a chocolate cake from The Geeky Chef Cookbook. And the frosting recipe is basically garbage: 1 stick of butter to 165 grams (1 3/4 cups!!!!) of cocoa powder. So in the video I need to say something along the lines of "A normal frosting recipe has more like XX cocoa powder per stick of butter." So can I get a quick spot-check here? For your preferred cocoa-powder-based frosting recipe, how much cocoa powder per stick of butter? I don't actually know how much I added in the end, the cameras were rolling so I just added cocoa and sugar until it tasted good!

[Darienne]

No help from this Canadian.  I have trouble just remembering what a stick of butter is. 

[Kim Shook]

This is a good one, Chris.  

[Chris Hennes]

2 hours ago, Darienne said:

No help from this Canadian.  I have trouble just remembering what a stick of butter is. 

113 grams  

[Kerry Beal]

6 hours ago, Chris Hennes said:

I'm making another cooking video, this time about a chocolate cake from The Geeky Chef Cookbook. And the frosting recipe is basically garbage: 1 stick of butter to 165 grams (1 3/4 cups!!!!) of cocoa powder. So in the video I need to say something along the lines of "A normal frosting recipe has more like XX cocoa powder per stick of butter." So can I get a quick spot-check here? For your preferred cocoa-powder-based frosting recipe, how much cocoa powder per stick of butter? I don't actually know how much I added in the end, the cameras were rolling so I just added cocoa and sugar until it tasted good!

I'd say somewhere between quarter and half a cup typically. 

[Pastrypastmidnight]

The Hershey’s recipe, which is all cocoa powder with no chocolate, is 2/3 cup for 1 stick of butter. It’s pretty good. For that style of frosting.