You probably didn’t know, that I, Annie, am slightly obsessed with Sprinkles Cupcakes. My secret’s out. I’ll bend my no-sugar rule for a taste of their frosting!
I don’t get to Sprinkles often (I even resisted visiting when I was near Scottsdale last weekend!). I do, however, like to eat chocolate frosting often. And I was beyond pleased when I found a product that would allow me to do this in a healthier way.
It’s Earth Balance Butter that is soy free.
It’s like butter, but not butter and without the bad stuff. It’s creamy and makes the most amazing vegan chocolate frosting.
This buttercream, combined with a healthier butter and delicious natural coconut sugar rivals even bakery frostings. I think coconut sugar makes THE BEST chocolate frosting and this butter free version is no exception. This is as good as that stuff we all covet at bakeries like Sprinkles.
And yet this is totally dairy-free, soy-free, sugar-free, vegan buttercream frosting!
Vegan Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (gluten-free)
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3/4 cup Soy Free Earth Balance Butter
1 1/3 cups Coconut Sugar
Dash of Salt
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 teaspoons Rice Flour
1/8 teaspoon Natural Butter Extract, optional, but highly recommended!
In a blender or food processor, blend up the coconut sugar until it is a smooth powder.
Dump the sugar in a small mixing bowl. Add the earth balance butter and salt and cream until smooth and combined. Add the cocoa, vanilla extract and butter extract if desired and beat. Add the rice flour and combine. If you want to use this to pipe or you just like a thicker frosting, you can add an extra 1 to 2 teaspoons of flour and place in the fridge to firm. Enjoy immediately or store covered in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Makes a scant 2 cups of frosting or enough to frost 10-14 cupcakes, depending on how much frosting you like.
This sounds amazing! Do you have a similar recipe for vegan vanilla buttercream frosting?
Not yet! But it’s on our list. :)
I keep seeing delicious looking recipes with Earth Balance Butter…I’m going to need to try it pronto and first up will be this chocolate buttercream. Looks amazing!
Yum! Sometimes I have a hard time covering up that earth balance ‘after taste’, you know what I mean? But adding chocolate always does the trick :) This looks SO good. Love my frosting. its bad. I’ve never tried coconut sugar or butter extract, have to try that next time too, I still haven’t found my perfect frosting, can’t wait to try this girls!!
Do you think this same recipe would work for a vanilla frosting!? YUMMMS!
Coconut sugar isn’t the best sweetener to use for vanilla flavored treats because we’ve found it gives a brown sugary kind of flavor. It would taste good, but it would not be a true vanilla buttercream. We are going to work on a vegan vanilla recipe soon though! :)
OMG this looks divine! I’m going to save this recipe and make it in the near future :)
Looks great, thank you.
Do you have s favorite vegan cupcake are you using it for?
Here are our vegan cupcake recipes:
http://www.naturalsweetrecipes.com/gluten-free-vegan-chocolate-cupcakes/
http://www.naturalsweetrecipes.com/chocolate-cupcakes-with-peanut-butter-frosting/
This recipe would also be really good with this:
http://www.naturalsweetrecipes.com/individual-chocolate-cakes/
Thanks! :)
Is it easy to find coconut sugar in stores like Whole Foods? I’ve been wanting to try it out!
Yes, it is. Sometimes it goes by the name “Coconut Palm Sugar”, but most natural health food stores sell it. And Costco now sells it too. :)