15 Vegan Icing Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is a vegan substitute for butter in frosting? ›

What are good vegan butter substitutes? In baking, you can use vegan butter, applesauce, dairy-free yogurt, coconut oil, coconut butter, olive oil, nut butter, mashed banana and mashed avocado. In cooking, you can use olive oil, coconut oil, vegetable stock, or avocado oil to replace butter.

Coconut Cream: Whip a few tablespoons with softened, refined coconut oil in a stand mixer or with an electric beater to emulsify the mixture. This is an especially great substitute when making frosting.

Non-dairy Milk: I like to use oat milk, this is just as needed to thin out the frosting. Vanilla: I add this no matter what flavor I am making. Salt: A pinch of salt makes this recipe so much more amazing. Peanut Butter, Freeze Dried Strawberries, Cocoa Powder: These are the optional add ins for different flavors.

To make this Easy Vegan Vanilla Frosting, you'll need just a few ingredients. Softened vegan butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and a little non-dairy milk. The great thing about this recipe is that it can easily be used for different things.

This is because some manufacturers of icing sugar add dried egg whites to the mix. As a result, some brands that sell icing sugar are vegetarian but not vegan, so it's best to check the label to be sure. For a vegan-friendly icing sugar, Tate and Lyle Icing sugar is suitable for vegans to use, so get baking!

Vegan butter is a non-dairy butter substitute made from plant-based ingredients. It is typically made from a blend of vegetable oils such as coconut, palm, or soybean and other natural ingredients such as nuts, seeds, and even algae. This makes it a great alternative for those who: Follow a vegan diet.

Heavy Cream

Try thickening it with a bit of heavy whipping cream. You can add up to ¼ cup of heavy cream, depending on how much you need to thicken it. Then whip the frosting until it fluffs up. Heavy cream also works if the recipe instructs you to heat the frosting.

Egg whites and confectioner's sugar beaten together, a dash of lemon juice as a stabilizer. It's quick and easy to make, holds its shape beautifully and if it dries out you can always add water to revive it. Perfectly white, easy to color and easy to clean, too.

What can I use instead of butter and icing for cake? ›

Well, if you don't want to use butter…you can use cream instead.” Cream cheese frosting is delicious and easy to make. This is a general recipe, you can tweak according to your taste. Simply beat softened cream cheese and add granulated sugar until it is as sweet as you would like.

If you're not adding enough sugar, your buttercream won't be stable enough to hold its shape for long. If you're adding a little plant-based milk to thin the buttercream when frosting a cake, you might be adding too much of it, again, making it too unstable.

Among other milk alternatives like almond milk, soy milk and oat milk, soy milk is by far the best for baking. I learned this over the course of several years and many cookies, cakes, muffins and pies. Moreover, some people will tell you that you must swap full-fat coconut milk in for heavy cream or half-and-half.

Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines

After looking over all the ingredients labels listed on the General Mills website, it appears that none of the Betty Crocker cake frostings are vegan. All of them contain milk and/or eggs. Duncan Hines, on the other hand, is surprisingly vegan friendly.

So, is Betty Crocker frosting vegan? Yes. All of the Betty Crocker icing flavours sold in the UK are suitable for vegans and vegetarians. They do not contain milk or any e-numbers that are derived from animal sources.

Pillsbury Frosting?!

Many of the Pillsbury frostings–even the cream cheese and milk chocolate varieties–are vegan! (They do contain partially-hydrogenated oils, but hey, no one eats cupcakes to be healthy.)

There is one exception to this, though - icing sugar. It doesn't use bone char but some of the most popular brands of icing sugar contain dried egg white. It's a bit more of a pain to find a vegan option here, although if you search for “vegan icing sugar”, you can find brands that sell online.

CONTAINS MILK AND SOY INGREDIENTS.