What cake is complete without frosting? Only a cake that could be 1 million times better if it had frosting, that’s what kind! You won’t find many cans of vegan frosting on the shelf at the supermarket, but it’s easy enough to whip up a creamy batch on your own. These 11 vegan frosting recipes are simple, delicious, and healthier than any frosting from a can.
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#1. Avocado Chocolate Frosting
Avocados have the perfect texture for making a smooth and creamy frosting. This chocolate frosting could compliment a wide variety of cakes and desserts.
#2. Ermine Frosting
Ermine frosting is the traditional type of icing used on red velvet cake, however, this vegan ermine frosting recipe was designed to be the perfect compliment to pumpkin cake.
#3. Lemon Coconut Frosting
This vegan lemon coconut frosting is tangy and refreshing. It would go great on lemon cupcakes or muffins. Just make sure you use liquid stevia or vegetable glycerin in place of honey if you want the recipe to truly be vegan.
#4. Amazing Mylk Chocolate Frosting
Some people just can’t live without milk chocolate. If you’re one of them, this frosting is for you.
#5. Chocolate Frosting Shots
For when you’ve completely given up on life. Just kidding! Believe it or not, these little guys are actually pretty healthy – a whole lot healthier than real chocolate frosting or mousse.
#6. Cookies and Cream Frosting
The perfect topping for a chocolate cake, or chocolate brownies, or chocolate cupcakes, or pretty much anything that’s chocolate and baked.
#7. Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Sometimes all you need is a tried and true vanilla frosting, and this vegan buttercream has everything you’d want in one. I’ve always been a big fan of vanilla frosting on chocolate cake. I imagine this frosting would also be delicious on dark chocolate brownies.
#8. Salted Coconut Oil Frosting
If you’re looking for a vanillin frosting with a little twist, this less conventional salted coconut oil frosting may be what your pallet desires.
#9. Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting – That Doesn’t Use Vegan Cream Cheese
This vegan cream cheese recipe is unique in that it doesn’t use any cream cheese. It doesn’t use any margarine, either. It’s essentially a made-from-scratch recipe, and it’s a lot healthier than others that use heavily processed ingredients.
#10. Chocolate Ganache Frosting
For the chocolate connoisseur who considers them self a purist, I present you with this classic ganache.
#11. White Chocolate Frosting
And, because no yin is complete without its yang, this white chocolate frosting completes our list. The recipe says vegan margarine is optional, but if you want a creamy cake-frosting texture, you should definitely use it.
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