Easy Dairy Free Strawberry Frosting

Ready for an easy and delicious Dairy Free Strawberry Frosting? You've come to the right place. This recipe uses freeze dried strawberry powder, coconut cream and icing sugar - a simple recipe with just 3 ingredients to get you to dessert heaven that also happens to be vegan.

🎂 How this vegan frosting came about...

Back in February - which now feels like a lifetime ago - my housemate asked me to cater to the gluten-free guests at her sister's 60th birthday. No pressure! While there were only a handful of gluten-free guests attending, I don't bake all that often so I was a little panicked about getting it right. I definitely put a lot of pressure on myself to create excellent recipes that people will love, so I threw myself into the task with gusto.

I tested many dairy-free and Paleo buttercream frosting recipes that I found online and in various recipe books I have at home but wasn't happy with any of them. They either didn't hold their shape, they were powdery or too sweet. I was quite surprised at this because it seems to be a recipe with a high demand, yet not many quality options available, especially if you want to avoid cheap vegetable oils as I do.

As it turns out, I didn't end up using this particular frosting at the party - I used a vanilla one that I need to work on some more before I put it on the blog. I was super happy with the texture and taste but it was a little finicky to get it to the right softness for piping.

But that all led me to want to experiment more with dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan baking. Happily, this strawberry buttercream frosting was pretty easy to get right so I'm happy that it's ready to share with you.

🍰 What you'll love about this buttercream-style frosting

• It's a buttercream style, but without the butter!
• Totally easy to make
• 5 minutes hands-on time
• Short ingredient list
• So tasty
• Not overly sweet
• Can be frozen and stored for future cake adventures
• Because it's not too firm, you can use most piping nozzles/tips with this

🧁 Important things to know about this dairy free buttercream frosting

• You need to chill the coconut cream ahead of time - at least overnight
• It's best to chill the prepared frosting first for a couple of hours and then pipe your cake/cupcake just before serving because it's pretty soft
• If you need to travel, carry your cakes and frosting separately and frost just before serving.
• As there are only 3 ingredients, I can't recommend any substitutions
• If you can't find freeze dried strawberry powder, you can use the equivalent weight in whole freeze dried strawberries (or raspberries) blended in to a powder in your blender
• I recommend making this frosting first thing in the morning for either morning tea or slightly later for afternoon tea
• If you want a more pronounced pink colour, you can add more of the strawberry powder
• The brand of freeze-dried strawberry powder I use is Absolute Fruitz, but there are plenty of other brands available if you live outside Australia

👩🏼‍🍳 Recipes you can use this frosting with

This strawberry frosting pairs perfectly with my Chocolate Mochi Cupcakes! It's the best combination.

You can also use this frosting on your favourite cake or even on sugar cookies.

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