This vanilla Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting is super easy only needing 3 ingredients and takes just minutes to whip up. Completely dairy free and vegan.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Tasty Sweetness: This Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting is deliciously creamy, sweet, with a perfect taste and it’s easily spreadable on top of cupcakes, cakes or even the tops of cookies.
- Quick and Easy: This homemade easy vegan cream cheese frosting recipe is ready in minutes and cleaning up is extremely quick and easy.
- Only 3 Ingredients: This is the best vegan cream cheese frosting and you only need 3 ingredients, giving you a beautiful looking frosting, that’s creamy and smooth, perfect to top cupcakes with.
- Vegan Topping: Yes, this cream cheese vegan frosting is the perfect topping, best of all it’s completely vegan ingredients, the taste is so good, non-vegans won’t even know it’s a vegan frosting.
Vegan recipes to use this Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting on:
Ingredients
For the full list of ingredients and quantities for Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting check the recipe card below.
- Powdered Sugar: The best way to measure powdered sugar is a kitchen scale but if you don't have one be sure to spoon and level into you measuring cup, careful not to pack it.
- Vegan Cream Cheese and Vegan Butter: I like Miyokos Brand for the vegan cream cheese and the vegan butter.
Variations
- Ways to Use: This Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting is a perfect sweet addition on top of many items, likeVegan Vanilla Cupcakes,Vegan Pumpkin Muffins, red velvet cake, vegan carrot cake, pumpkin bars or any other homemade cakes, bars or treats, its the tastiest addition to top off many treats.
- Variation: This cream cheese frosting is vegan and easily customizable, add a little vanilla or cocoa powder to change up the taste and sweetness of this frosting, I’ve even added a tablespoon of peanut butter and it’s amazing.
- Design Topping: You can design this topping if you’d like, you can spread it on top with a spatula or knife, but you can also use a pipping bag that you can create different designs, heights of the frosting and the amount of frosting used.
How to make this Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting:
Step 1: To make the vegan cream cheese frosting, add the vegan cream cheese, vanilla and softened butter to a large mixing bowl, using a hand blender cream together.
Step 2: Slowly add the powdered sugar in, I added 3 times before using it all up.
Step 3: Frost fully cooled cupcakes or cake right away or store in the fridge up to 1 week. If storing in the fridge you will need to remove and let soften about 5 minutes and if still stiff up the hand mixer to whip up again until creamy smooth.
Expert Tips
- Soften the Butter: I used Miyoko’s butter in this recipe, be sure to soften it to room tempeture before mixing together.
- Packing: When filling the measuring cup with powdered sugar do not pack it into the cup, if you pack the cup you’ll have too much powdered sugar in the recipe. With a spoon you can lightly scoop the powdered sugar into the cup and level the top off. As always a kitchen scale is the most accurate way.
- Be sure baked good is cooled: It’simportant, make sure the item you are topping is cooled off completely, if it’s not the Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting will melt right off or into the item.
- Storing: You do need to refrigerate what ever you have frosted, the butter and the Miyoko’s cream cheese I used needs to be refrigerated in a sealed container for up to 4-5 days for the frosting, but also follow how long the recipe you made says it’s good for, if it says 2-3 days than that’s how long it’s good for.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, absolutely you can add cocoa powder to cream cheese frosting. This recipe is vegan so be sure to grab pure vegan cocoa powder.
Yes there is a difference between icing and frosting. Icing is generally a lot thinner than frosting, which means it’s good for delicately drizzling on the baked item to give it a decoration, while frosting is usually a lot thicker and can easily cover a full cake or the tops of cupcakes or cookies.
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Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegan butter softened
- 1 container vegan cream cheese (8 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
- 3 ½ cups powdered sugar not packed (420 grams)
Instructions
- To make the vegan cream cheese frosting, add the vegan cream cheese, vanilla and softened butter to a large mixing bowl, using a hand blender cream together. Slowly add the powdered sugar in, I added 3 times before using it all up.
- Frost fully cooled cupcakes or cake right away or store in the fridge up to 1 week. If storing in the fridge you will need to remove and let soften about 5 minutes and if still stiff up the hand mixer to whip up again until creamy smooth.
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