I've seen a "fudge" icing with no chocolate icing. But that's not normally what people mean.

Here's a good chocolate fudge icing:

3 c Sugar
Cocoa
1 1/2 c Milk
1 tb Butter
1 ts Vanilla
Instructions
Mix sugar and cocoa until a medium brown color. Stir in milk and boil until softball stage in cold water. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla. Beat until it starts to cool very slightly and put on bottom layer. Place top layer on this and continue to beat icing until starts to get slightly thick. Pour over top layer and spread over top and sides. If you wait too long, you will have a glob of candy on top of your cake, but if you pour it too soon, it runs everywhere. Kind of hard to describe over cyberspace how to find a happy medium. It is really easy but can be tricky also.

The non-chocolate recipe is:

4 tb Butter or vegan margarine
3 tb Water
3 dr Vanilla extract
Instructions
Heat the butter or vegan margarine and water in a saucepan until melted. Remove from the heat and sift in the confectioners sugar. Add the vanilla and beat well. The icing will thicken up as it cools. Source: The Complete Vegetarian Cuisine - by Rose Elliot ISBN: 0-394-57123-1

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