Could someone recomend a good and easy chocolate icing recipe?
It with be used on a fudge cake with chocolate rasperry filling.
tia

You might try the wilton recipe and use 3/4 cup of coco. I really like the taset of that recipe.

I basically use the Wilton Chocolate buttercream but use butter flavored crisco instead of regular!!

Can you use melted chocolate instead of cocoa?

I think you can use squares of melted chocolate instead. I prefer to use Nestle Cocoa, much better flavor to me!

If you're not doing any major piping, you can use whipped ganache, which is just melted chocolate and heavy cream.