Healthy Chocolate Frosting – DF/GF

This healthy chocolate frosting has only four ingredients! Plus, it contains no processed ingredients and tastes delicious. The perfect option for cookies, cupcakes or even smoothie bowls… yup, I’ve been there!

Finding a healthy chocolate frosting recipe can be a b*tch. I got so sick of searching for recipes because so many were coming back with half a cup of stevia, xylitol or some other ingredient that to me, is still SUGAR. And in that amount, still not healthy.

So, I started using my nighttime sticky pudding recipe as frosting and everyone seem to love it – win.

It’s simple, contains only four ingredients and it’s a recipe I feel GOOD about giving to my girls as a treat.

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Healthy Frosting Options

Being dairy-free and gluten-free means that at most parties I’m stuck on my own when it comes to desserts. Womp womp.

But even purchasing an organic frosting still makes me cringe.

• Palm oil
• Icing sugar
• Natural chocolate flavor

Uhhh. It’s not looking great. And definitely not something that I want to use!

I’ve previously thought that frosting would be the death of me. I just could not make it work. I’ve tried a lot over the years (like the icing on my sugar-free, first birthday smash cake), I still found it tricky.

While the others have been tasty, this healthy chocolate frosting is the first one that mimics actual frosting and tastes delicious topped on cashew butter cookies!

It’s sticky, it binds two things together (like cookie sandwiches!) and it is most definitely still delicious when licked off a spoon ?

Healthy Option For Kids

If you’re on this blog, I’m hoping you know that I’m passionate about healthy eating… for myself AND for my girls.

This means I strive to eliminate processed food and additives wherever I can (and that especially means cutting back on sugar!).

It hurts to say it, but most of our kids today live off of false foods like:

• Natural flavors
• Dyes
• Preservatives
• Processed sugars

So, one of my biggest goals is finding workarounds in order to help keep my kids healthy. This is a treat I feel GOOD about giving to them.

This healthy chocolate frosting makes it, so they’re not left out at parties or gatherings either. So that they can “indulge” with the other kids or because they want to but still get some nutrients out of it.

And of course, given the recipe doesn’t have a lot of sugar in it, this healthy chocolate frosting also eliminates a lot of the sugar high aspect- thank god.

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Healthy Chocolate Frosting

A four-ingredient, paleo chocolate frosting recipe perfect for cookies and cupcakes!

Course Dessert

Keyword Healthy Chocolate Frosting

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Calories 234 kcal

Author fitasamamabear

Ingredients

• 1/8 cup cacao powder
• 1 tbs honey
• 1.5 tbs cashew butter
• 1 tsp almond milk

Instructions

1. Whisk all the ingredients together into a bowl until smooth.

   

Recipe Notes

Note: with these amounts, the frosting only makes enough to frost about six cookies. Double the batch depending on how much you need!

Nutrition Facts

Healthy Chocolate Frosting

Amount Per Serving

Calories 234 Calories from Fat 126

% Daily Value*

Fat 14g22%

Saturated Fat 3g19%

Sodium 13mg1%

Potassium 299mg9%

Carbohydrates 30g10%

Fiber 4g17%

Sugar 17g19%

Protein 7g14%

Calcium 24mg2%

Iron 3mg17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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My challenge to you is this: make the swap! Use this healthy chocolate frosting in place of store-bought. It’s dairy-free, gluten-free, paleo and the perfect topper to cookies and cakes. It contains no processed sugars and it’s still decadent. Small swaps matter.