Healthy Paleo Chocolate Frosting (No Sugar Or Butter!)

Only four ingredients in this healthy chocolate frosting! This paleo frosting is made in just five minutes and contains no processed ingredients. The perfect option to ice cookies, top cupcakes, or lick off a spoon

A simple, indulgent, paleo chocolate frosting made minimal, real food ingredients. This chocolate frosting is a healthy dessert that you can feel good about giving to your kids.

Moreover, it’s loaded with healthy fats, calcium and sweetened only with a hint of honey. Use it for:

• cookie frosting (like these chocolate frosted cashew cookies)
• to top cupcakes with
• in smoothie bowls
• to lick off a spoon and curb a craving

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Why Avoid Traditional, Store-Bought Frostings

Most packaged frostings contain unhealthy ingredients for kids.

Even organic frosting has:

• Palm oil (which has a host of negative health effects)
• Icing sugar
• Natural chocolate flavor

None of these ingredients are healthy let alone health-boosting.

Cacao Or Cocoa Powder

There are a few subtle differences between cacao and cocoa powder. Mainly, cacao powder is much less processed, contains calcium and magnesium but also has a slightly more bitter taste.

You can learn more about the benefits of cacao powder here.

Thus, for this healthy chocolate frosting, cacao powder was used. However, you can easily substitute it for cocoa powder.

If you’re doing that, you may not need as much honey.

What Can I Use Instead Of Cashew Butter?

Cashew butter is used in this chocolate frosting because it’s very neutral-flavored nut butter. Likewise, it’s also very creamy.

However, if you don’t have cashew butter on hand, feel free to use a different one! Almond butter or peanut butter both work.

Keeping that in mind, changing the nut butter will also change the flavor of the frosting.

Another thing to remember when shopping for nut butters is to make sure to purchase all-natural nut butter. Some companies add sugar into their nut butters and it’s not necessary.

Need a nut-free frosting?

Simply use Sun Butter in place of cashew.

How Can I Make The Frosting Vegan?

This healthy chocolate frosting can easily be made vegan by subbing out the honey for maple syrup.

However doing so will alter both the flavor and the texture of the frosting. The flavor will be slightly less sweet (but still delicious). Similarly, the texture will be a bit thinner and not harden as well.

Texture Of The Frosting

This frosting recipe is both light and thick. It does spread onto cookies or cupcakes but it’s dense. Thus, make sure your cookies are not too delicate!

The nut butter in the recipe plus the honey makes this frosting thick and sticky. Though you can spread it, you cannot pipe it. You can thin it slightly by adding some coconut milk to the recipe if you need to. Just add it in teaspoon by teaspoon until you reach your desired consistency.

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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

• The frosting makes about one cup. The serving size is two tablespoons
• With these amounts, the frosting only makes enough to frost about six cookies. Double the batch depending on how much you need
• If you need to make this frosting nut-free, simply sub Sun Butter for the cashew
• If stored in the fridge, the frosting hardens. Thus, it's best used immediately

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.

Don’t forget to pin this healthy chocolate frosting!

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.