Look closely…
What do you see in this photo?
Do you see…
A. unicorns and rainbows?
B. flying puppies?
C. Brownies iced in thick fudgey frosting, without ANY butter or sugar?
Hopefully you see the third choice: a decadent coffee fudge frosting recipe that is made without powdered sugar and without butter or shortening. Yet it is super rich and creamy—the perfect topping for any cake or brownies!
Above: used as frosting for my Black Bean Brownies.
Side note: If you chose answers A or B (the unicorns or puppies), it might be a good idea to talk to a psychologist about this. Or maybe an eye doctor…
You won’t miss the butter.
Promise.
Coffee Fudge Frosting
- 1 cup raw cashews or macadamia nuts (110g)
- 1/4 cup + 3 tbsp espresso or strong coffee
- very scant 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tsp pure maple syrup
- 1/8 tsp uncut stevia OR 4 tbsp powdered sugar (or simply increase the maple syrup to 4 tbsp, and decrease coffee to 1/4 cup)
Place the nuts in a cereal-sized bowl and cover with water. Let sit at least 6 hours, or overnight. Drain the liquid, then combine all ingredients in a small food processor or blender until super-smooth. (I actually used my Magic Bullet for this. If your food processor is too big, you might need to double the recipe for smoother blending.) For all substitution notes, see the nutrition link below:
Do you wear glasses at all?
When I was little, I wanted to wear glasses so badly. My optician uncle sent us pairs of fake glasses, and my sister and I actually wore them to school for a few months. Now that I do sometimes wear glasses, for far distances and driving, I wish I didn’t need them. It’s especially difficult to remember to bring them shopping, and I’m constantly losing them!
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I wanted glasses when I was little (probably because Mary Ingalls needed them..lol)- then at 10 I needed them, but after a few months I hated them.
My newer pair, I now love! They are very feminine and when I take them off it’s not like I’m taking off half my face, as my friend put it.
But I also have contacts – though sometimes they REALLY bother my eyes so that I have to turn them until they get in the right spot. Weird.
It’s funny, I really disliked my glasses last year, so I asked for contacts, but, once I got contacts – I now find I like my glasses. 😉 I wear glasses mostly at home & contacts out, but I sometimes enjoy wearing my cute glasses out.
Cool recipe, Katie!
I had to get glasses in 4th or 5th grade. A day or two later at school a teacher had asked me to help hand out something in class where each person was supposed to get a certain number of copies, and one boy apparently thought it would be funny to pretend I’d given him the wrong number since I “couldn’t see”. So mean! I begged my parents to get contacts before high school, so I got them for my 14th birthday and have worn those ever since. I still hate wearing my glasses out in public, but sometimes my eyes really need a break. I always find it amusing when people comment how smart you look with glasses on… As if you looked unintelligent without them? Lol
This frosting sounds so tasty! Coffee and chocolate were made for each other!
Yes, I have worn glasses since I was a wee lass. After seeing this recipe I am going to go put them on and get to baking ha ha. Love the recipe! It looks soooo delicious!
This looks sooooo good! Thanks for another great idea!
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oh my gosh that sounds amazing! i love cashews so much! YUM!!
Holy moly! Chocolate Covered Katie is such a perfect name for this blog – chocoholics, unite!
WOW! (jaw on floor). My mom is on her way over to France tonight and she is a health freak and a chocolate lover. Guess what I’ll be making, thanks to you. 🙂
Okay I made this and it is delicious! Not exactly like Pillsbury frosting, but we all agreed that we like it even better because it tastes more “real” if that makes sense. There’s no sicky sweet aftertaste like with the pillsbury stuff. This might just be my new “go to” frosting recipe. I just have to play around and try a non coffee version, but for now this version is perfect for the morning muffins we had it on.
I am in love with your recipes!!!
Glasses and me… that’s about the same story, Katie! I don*t like them… even though I wanted to wear glasses as a Kid so badly! Now I only use them for far distances and driving! =D
OMG when I was little my sisters all wore glasses and I did not need them. But I wanted them too and would lie on my eye exams they gave us at school each year and make up letters that I could see just fine. After a couple of years of doing this and my mom taking me to an ophthalmologist to have me checked out, she said why do you keep saying you can’t see when you have 20/20 vision? I started to cry and told her I wanted to wear glasses like my sisters. She went to Woolworths and bought me a fake pair for a buck and I wore those for a couple of weeks until I decided I did not like anything on my face! lol
This frosting is so easy and sounds so delicious– well done Katie!!
Yum!! I just bought cashews too! I’m surprised you didn’t add cocoa as well to make a MOCHA frosting! I guess I’ll have to experiment on your behalf :-p
I’m repinning this and hope to try it soon – sounds delicious! Although I have a Ninja to do most of my food processing tasks, I would love to win a Cuisinart!!
I pinned the creamy frosty coffee frosting. I hope I win!
I pinned this 😀 I have always wanted to know how to make frosting without any sugar and butter 😀 Thank you Katie 😀
So I followed the directions. Soaked my macadamias. Though I didn’t have coffee. I ended up adding rice milk. And I did the extra maple syrup. I was using a blender but wasn’t did double like you suggested. Whatever the problem, it did not turn out well at all. I could only get it to the consistency of the chocolate chip “cookie dough” balls but it basically tasted terrible and I know yours would be wonderful. (I need to quadruple the cookie dough balls. Amazing! Like a vanilla with chocolate sauce sundae!)
If your blender is too big, you might need to double the recipe for smoother blending. Otherwise you might just end up with un-blended chunky pieces, which doesn’t sound good at all!