Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting Tofu

Luscious creamy protein packed vegan cream cheese frosting with no refined sugar.

Vegan cream cheese frosting tofu. This recipe can also be stored in the freezer for up to 1 month. You can add vanilla extract if desired. This cream cheese will keep in the fridge for 5 7 days in an airtight container.

Even firm silken tofu is better suited for sour cream than cream cheese in my opinion. Storing dairy free cream cheese frosting. Store in the fridge for up to 7 days or freeze it and use in countless recipes.

Beat the shortening and cream cheese until combined and smooth beat in the lemon juice and vanilla. Hey internet i seem to have a penchant for making things out of tofu mostly cheese but this time i decided to make frosting out of it. Sift in the powdered icing sugar and beat well.

This healthy frosting takes only 5 minutes to make and requires less than 10 ingredients. However the magic ingredient is silken tofu which is quite smooth and neutral tasting. A half a cup of tofu contains 10 grams of protein 11 percent of the recommended daily amount of iron and all eight essential amino acids among other important nutrients.

This easy tofu cream cheese recipe is a simple way to make any bagel pasta or dessert tofu frosting more creamy and full of flavour. I ve noticed most other recipes for tofu cream cheese use silken tofu but i find that super firm tofu is much better for recreating the thick and creamy consistency of real cream cheese. I don t usually sift powdered sugar for frostings and usually leave it to my mixer to get rid of any lumps but for this frosting it didn t work.

Vegetable shortening or vegan butter margarine vegan cream cheese i prefer soy based for smoothness but tofu based and coconut based work well too lemon juice vanilla and powdered icing sugar. Cream cheese frosting is a must for some cakes such as carrot cake and making a dairy free and vegan version can be challenging. The best vegan cream cheese frosting.