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’ve worn glasses since I was in preschool. Almost everybody in my family wears or has worn glasses at some point. I was just the lucky one whose eyes were super messed up 🙂
This frosting looks awesome! Frostings never come out very well for me, but I’ll have to try again with this one.
Do you know of any substitutions for the coffee?
It looks so delicious! I am definitely going to make this in the weekend! And I absolutely love coffee and chocolate, so this is like heaven 🙂
Um, I totally see rainbows and puppies. But I see those things anytime I’m looking at something delicious.
Hopefully you don’t want to eat the puppies, though ;).
I see a heart made from frosting. Yummy!
I have glasses. Since I wear them constantly, losing them is as likely as me losing a hand. My main thign is that I”m very fussy about their cleanliness and wipe them frequently.
umm brownies and coffee! this sounds yummyyyyy! thank you for sharing!
Haha!!! I am the exact same! I used to wear fake glasses and now I am stuck with real ones!!! This looks great-I can’t wait to try it! I just made your no-bake peanut butter pie and give it 5 stars! It was amazing.
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!