Cream Cheese Icing Dairy-Free

This dairy-free cream cheese frosting is perfect for carrot cake, cinnamon rolls, and pumpkin bars.

It's also delicious on sugar cookie fruit pizza and spice cake. Recipe links below! 

Even if you aren't a fan of vegan cream cheese, you will enjoy this frosting.

After we add sugar and a couple secret ingredients, family and friends will be gobbling it up without even knowing it has no dairy and isn't real cream cheese. 

I shock my own self when I catch myself eating it plain off a spoon. 

See the easy icing recipe below.

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BEST DAIRY-FREE CREAM CHEESE FOR MAKING FROSTING

Valid, dairy-free cream cheese can be a little jarring on the pallet, especially for those who have eaten regular cream cheese. 

My son, who has milk allergy, has never had dairy cream cheese. 

But my hubby eats cream cheese with milk in it, regularly on his bagels.

So finding a milk-free cream cheese brand that we can all agree on could potentially be difficult. 

I'm happy to report, though, that we have a tried-and-true vegan cream cheese our whole family enjoys...especially in recipes where we doctor it up. 

Tofutti cream cheese is our favorite! It's been around since our diagnosis in 2005. It's never disappeared like other brands. And it's easy to find. Woohoo! 

Tofutti is soy-based and thankfully doesn't contain cashew like other dairy-free cream cheese brands...because my son is also allergic to nuts.

Not only is a good cream cheese important for making tasty cream cheese frosting, but so are a couple other simple ingredients you shouldn't leave out.

HOW TO MAKE DAIRY FREE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING TASTE GOOD

Here are the must-have ingredients for making dairy-free cream cheese frosting that tastes delicious. 

• tasty vegan cream cheese
• real vanilla extract
• real lemon juice
• lots of powdered sugar

BAKED GOODS THAT GO WELL WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Here are several baked goodies we frost with homemade, dairy-free cream cheese icing:

• carrot cake
• pumpkin bars
• cinnamon rolls
• sugar cookie fruit pizza
• spice cake

Now see the no-dairy cream cheese frosting recipe below!

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING RECIPE DAIRY-FREE

Yields enough to frost 12 cupcakes, a 9x9" cake, or 6 cinnamon rolls.

Double the recipe for a 9x13" cake. 

Triple the recipe for a double layer cake. 

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons of dairy-free butter stick, cold
¼ container of dairy-free cream cheese (2 ounces)
1 and ½ cups powdered sugar (or more)
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

DIRECTIONS

Cream together dairy-free butter and dairy-free cream cheese with an electric mixer.

Mix in vanilla extract and lemon juice.

Gradually add powdered sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowl as you go.

Mix in powdered sugar thoroughly until the icing is smooth.

Add more powdered sugar if you want it thicker, ¼ cup at a time until you reach desired consistency.

Frost your baked good when it’s completely cooled.

Store frosting and frosted cake in refrigerator.

Hope you enjoy this cream cheese frosting as much as we do!

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