Our Family Food Favorites: Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting

Feb 3, 2022

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting

This is from the back of a Hershey's cocoa box.

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting

Picture from Hersheyland.com

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

2/3 cup Hershey's cocoa

3 cups powedered sugar

1/3 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powder sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount of additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. Makes about 2 cups of frosting.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.