Recipe Connection: Sugar Free Frosting Recipe (Date Sweetened!) (2024)

It’s a “you’ll never guess what’s in it” sort of recipe today.

Like those black bean brownies from The Everything Beans Book, it’s almost unfathomable that a frosting recipe could have no dairy, no sweeteners, no egg…and still taste pretty darn awesome.

I hate to call it a “sugar-free frosting,” since that conjures up nasty images of artificial sweeteners dancing in my head, but it’s true. This one is all whole foods, no artificials, no stevia (Read More: Is Stevia Safe?).

In the past, I’ve only made two kinds of frosting: this one adapted from my childhood to be slightly healthier but still packed with sugar, and a yogurt cheese frosting with a bit of maple syrup and almond extract like I put on my healthy fruit pizza. Since my husband doesn’t care for the latter, which is actually the healthy one, it was exciting to come across something totally new.

I was quite skeptical that it would be any good and then pleasantly surprised.

I’ve been referring to my review copy of Nourishing Meals by Ali Segersten and Tom Maltere, MS, CN, quite often since I received it last summer. Many of the recipes are very out of the box for me, and it’s pushed me to (finally) get into some gluten-free baking beyond stuff with coconut flour or almond flour.

This First Communion cake that I introduced in today’s Real Food Party Menu Plan was the blackberry buckwheat cake on p. 467, if you have the book, except I cut the spices, scraped a vanilla bean into it instead, and used raspberries. So it was a raspberry vanilla bean cake, I suppose, but I couldn’t have made it without Tom and Ali’s help!

I modified the Cashew Date Frosting on p. 470, although I made the test batch the week prior and used some of the leftovers to help cover the entire layer cake.

The color of the frosting in the photos is the way it is naturally; I’m not sure you could make it any other colors, especially not with any natural food coloring. The white part is actually a bit of yogurt cheese frosting since I was making yogurt cheese for the dip at the party anyway and had to have something of another color to write words in.

I added the raspberries (frozen) that morning because I knew they would bleed pink (and they did). It was fun to have raspberries both in and on the cake.

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Frosting Tip

Maybe everyone in the world knows this one, but if you’re frosting a cake on a pretty plate or stand, put parchment or waxed paper underneath all the edges, and then you don’t have to be super careful at the bottom:

Just slide it right out when you’re finished frosting (and maybe lick it before tossing it, if you’re that kind of person).

Other cakes we love:

• Healthy birthday cakes (coconut cake and classic whole grain butter cake)
• Sourdough chocolate cake (this is amazing for all ages, with red wine for the adults!)

Let me know what you think and leave a rating below!

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