As I’ve mentioned before, the littlest person in our family has a problem with dairy. For previous birthdays, I have just let him have cake with dairy icing and we would deal with any potential side effects. Since it was only once in awhile he was usually fine. But it was his birthday and I wanted him to be able to eat cake without any worries (well he was never worried, he’s only 2!).
Don’t get me wrong, this is not one of my healthy recipes. Other than being dairy-free, there is certainly nothing healthy about it. But for those of you who can’t handle dairy, I wanted to share this super delicious, and super easy, alternative.
For my first attempt I tried the recipe with just soy cream cheese but it wouldn’t aerate and thicken up so it did slide off the cake a bit (was still delicious though). It needed the added fat from the vegan butter. This final recipe though will satisfy even the most ardent of dairy lovers.
We had just eaten cake a couple days before, so I put this icing batch on some of my Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins and it was delicious!
Ingredients
- 255g of your favourite soy cream cheese (I’ve tried both Creamy Sheese and Tofutti Better Then Cream Cheese)
- 1/2 cup vegan butter (I recently found the one pictured by Funky Fields. It tastes terrific, but it does have nuts in it so isn’t school friendly unfortunately)
- 3 cups sifted icing sugar (I try to buy an organic one from the bulk shop but when I run out I have to get the commercial one pictured from the grocery store)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cacao powder (Quality matters here. Cheap ones just don’t taste right)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
Method
- Add all the ingredients into your mixer.
- Mix on medium for about 3 minutes until the icing becomes light and fluffy.
- Eat, um, I mean spread onto cupcakes or cake.
Makes enough icing to easily ice a double layer cake or 24 cupcakes.
Enjoy!
This recipe is adapted from the delicious one at Natasha’s Kitchen.
Be Healthy! 