Homemade Dairy Free Sugar Free Frosting

This easy dairy free frosting recipe is also refined sugar free! Based on a classic ermine frosting recipe with simple ingredients.

No one will believe this creamy delicious frosting is dairy, gluten and sugar free!

If you don't need it to be gluten free, then plain white flour will work too.

I used Freee plain white flour for this recipe and it came out great.

First we cook the flour, oat milk and honey together to make the caramel sauce that will thicken our vegan butter.

Of course, you can use any non-dairy milk you choose, I just love oat milk.

To make this 100% vegan, you could use carob fruit syrup instead.

Chill the caramel sauce for about 30 minutes until it's room temperature, then give it another good stir to make sure there are no lumps.

Whisk your room temperature dairy free butter for about 3 minutes, until it's lighter in colour. I used Flora unsalted plant butter.

Is your block of butter too cold to whisk? Just microwave for 15 seconds and it should whisk nicely.

At this point you can add a couple of drops of food colouring if you like, whisk in thoroughly too.

Here's where we need to be a little bit patient!

Whisk in only 1 spoon of the caramel at a time, making sure it's completely whisked in before you add the next one, or you risk curdling.

Then you'll end up with a smooth dairy free buttercream. Smooth out any bubbles with a spoon if needed.

If it looks like the frosting has split, this means the vegan butter was too cold. Just microwave for 15 seconds and whisk again, it will all combine back together.

This dairy free frosting has a beautiful vanilla flavour, thanks to the honey, and it's not overpoweringly sweet so you can pipe it high!

This recipe makes enough frosting for 12 cupcakes as shown.

They are best eaten within 2 days, stored in the fridge and served at room temperature.

I hope this recipe is useful for you when there are so many food preferences, allergies, intolerances around! This is truly a cupcake frosting almost anyone can eat!

Homemade Dairy Free Sugar Free Frosting

Recipe Category: Cake, Dessert

Recipe Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 5 mins

Servings: 12

Calories: 114

Rating: 5 from 3 votes

INGREDIENTS

125g vegan butter (room temperature)
25g gluten free flour
100 ml oat milk
100g honey

RECIPE METHOD

Whisk flour into the milk and honey, heat gently, whisking continually until thick
Chill for 30 minutes
Whisk vegan butter until lighter in colour, about 3 minutes
Add in the caramel flour mixture, one spoonful at a time, whisking until completely combined