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…
Love almond butter it’s my favourite. Not a fan of peanuts, so no peanut butter for me. That recipe sounds really interesting too! 🙂
they’re all making me want some! and here I thought I was not going to crave anything sweet today b/c last night I had blueberry cheesecake and the world’s best pumpkin pie! hehehe. I love cashew, almond, sunflower seed, and hazelnut butter! I guess all of them, plus Artisana’s coconut butter 😛 But I think SSB is my fave. Then pb and almond+hazel come in 2nd. call me double minded!
Coconut butter is my all time fave. I also like almond butter (slightly salted and roasted) and raw cashew nut butter. Of course, I’m always open to trying new things (I even went on a raw hemp butter love fest).
Looks like a delicious frosting. I’m glad the carrot cake is back 🙂
Katie….I had a look at some of your very first posts on your old blog and I’d just like to say that I feel like a proud mother right now! Your photography is so beautiful and your recipes are just wonderful! I’m very happy for you and the success you have as a blogger is truly deserved 🙂
Awwwww!!! And I love looking back at my old posts for that very same reason… even less than a year ago, I was just snapping snapshots. It’s so fun when you can actually see tangible improvement!
I never had tried anything besides peanut butter either, until reading healthy living/food blogs and realizing all my options! I love all types of nut butters (as I love all types of nuts!) but my current favorite is Trader Joe’s Sunflower Seed Butter. So good!
Coconut butter is my all-time favourite, no competition!
I love almond and pb too, and cashew, but there’s nothing to compare with warm, melty coconut… 🙂
This looks like a great carrot-cake topping, thanks!
That always happens to me! Right now, I’m obsessed with chocolate and raspberries!
I LOVE NUT BUTTERS!! I don’t think I’ve tried one that I HAVEN’T liked! I go through phases with everrrry food, especially nut butters!! My current fave is almond butter, but it was cashew last week! And I think I’ll make this tonight!! Fingers crossed I have silken tofu somewhere…! 😀
<3 for Katie!!
P.S. Thank you SO MUCH for featuring me yesterday!! LOVE YOU!!!
Sunflower seed butter and Nutella! I just made something with Nutella + PB that’s pretty out of this world.
I am not the biggest fan, at all, of AB. It’s just too plain for me if that makes sense? I like more amp’ed up flavor and I think PB and SFSB float my boat a little better. And of course Nutella…or choc PB….yes please!
I completely agree! It’s my least fave too… Justin’s maple ab is good, but plain ab? Meh.
I LOVE CASHEWS! I’ve never had cashew butter, but I’m sure I would love it! Other than cashews and peanuts, I don’t like nuts eaten raw. Something about cashews is just magical, and I bet this frosting is too 😉