Does this ever happen to you?
You fall in love with a certain food or recipe and want to eat it every single day. I experienced this a few months ago, going on a major carrot-cake kick. I ate everything from cupcakes to Carrot Cake in a Bowl. But the love fest left me feeling so burned out I didn’t even want to look at anything carrot-cake for months. Luckily, yesterday afternoon, the carrot-cake monster returned!
My frosting-topped Single Lady Cupcake.
Now let’s talk about that frosting. Normally, I pair coconut butter with all my carrot cake-themed recipes, but yesterday I decided to be different. So I made cashew-banana butter. It’s just my regular banana butter recipe (banana blended with peanut butter), except I subbed Artisana cashew butter for the peanut butter.
Since that recipe, with its two ingredients, is much to simple to warrant a post of its own, I’m offering you a different cashew butter frosting recipe today:
Creamy Dreamy Frosting
(Makes about 1 1/3 cup)
- 2/3 cup silken-firm tofu (140 g) (Soy-Free Version Here)
- 6 tbsp raw cashew butter (or peanut or sunbutter)
- scant 1/8th tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch uncut stevia, or powdered sugar to taste
Blend everything in a blender, food processor, or Magic Bullet cup. This frosting is thicker when cold, so it’s a good idea to make it up ahead of time.
Link Of The Day:Â Breakfast Carrot Cake Milkshake
Hmmm, maybe it’s time to experiment and make some carrot cake blondies…
OH yes – I love hazelnut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, pumpkin seed butter, brazil nut butter… shall I go on? 😀
Sadly (or not), I’m not particularly fond of any nut butter. But I do love tahini and pumpkin butter! Really really good 😀
I totally agree with you about falling in love with a certain food or recipe and wanting to eat it every single day! Been through that so so so many times! There was a peanut phase (no peanut butter though), sesame phase, pumpkin phase, chocolate phase, mocha phase, matcha phase, banana phase…and the carrot cake phase too! There’s more but I’ll stop before anybody thinks I’m weird! 😀 Currently on sort of a beany phase, totally triggered by you!!!! Haha 😀
Oh yes! And chestnut butter (like Lenna!)! MUST mention that… that tastes amazing 😀
Yum!! I love cashew and coconut butter, and I really want to try almond butter!!!
I absolutely love cashew butter. Coconut butter and sunflower seed butter are up there too.
OO!!!! can i eat this SOLO?
u betcha I can! … i love cashew butter! but its better bought than homemade.. i made it weird last time!!… yes! i love almond butter, cashew butter but peanut butter i can NEVER get sick of~!
Oh I’ve definitely eaten the peanut butter version of this recipe solo! And you bet I’ve eaten the whole thing in a sitting!
Mmmmm…finally a frosting I won’t feel bad about eating by the spoonful! 😉
I love other nut butters, especially ones with brazil nuts in them (I had a tropical one with brazills and macadamias and it was so good)- hazelnut butter is lovely with sweet things, and I love almond butter too. Yum. But PB is still the king!
And thanks for your comment too 🙂
Hazelnut butter sounds soooo good… I want to try it!
I like all types of nut and seeds butters. I alternate between cashew, sunflower seed, almond, and peanut butter. Some times I’ll throw in tahini to change it up a bit.
Carrot cake and pumpkin flavors are my absolute favorite!!! The two must be incorporated into one recipe, and YOU are the girl to create that recipe!
Hmmm… maybe a carrot-pumpkin cinnamon roll? I need to work on a cinnamon roll recipe!
You should try tahini (sesame butter) with a swirl of molasses in your oatmeal. Mmm
Oooh my gosh I’ll have to try this!