Vegan Dairy-free Soy-free Chocolate Frosting Recipe and GF Menu
February 6th, 2011 yum
Posted in Breastfeeding for Allergic Baby Recipe, Chocolate, Frosting, Gluten Free Menu Swap Monday, Menu, Menu Plan Monday, Soy Free, Vegan | 11 Comments »
This afternoon I decided to make vanilla cupcakes from Elana Amsterdam’s Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook
I also wanted to try a menu again. I’ve gotten out of the habit and I miss it, so here goes. The DH is out of town, so I just have to please Baby Yum and my Mother, who is living with us.
Monday: American
Tofu Meatball subway on Sorghum-Millet French Bread
Tuesday: Chinese
Vegetable Stir Fry
Wednesday: Indian
Masala Dosa
Manchurian Cauliflower
Thursday: American
Split Pea Soup
Friday: Italian
Prepared Ravioli in pumpkin-sage cream sauce
Dessert of the week: Fruit Cobbler
I shared this menu with Gluten-free Smiles for the Gluten-free Menu Swap and over at Org Junkie.
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Dairy-free Soy-free Chocolate Frosting Recipe
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Ingredients
1/2 to 3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup shortening 1 tsp dairy and soy-free Margarine (I use soy-free Earth Balance) 1/2 cup high quality cocoa 2 tbsp coconut cream (*you can add 1/2 tbsp more if you like) 1/2 tsp. gluten-free vanilla pinch of salt
Directions
Put your shortening, margarine and 1/4 cup of your powdered sugar in a standing mixing bowl or small to medium bowl and mix together until creamy. Add your cocoa and another 1/4 cup sugar and combine. Add coconut cream (the thick cream-like solid that forms at the top of a can of regular, full fat coconut milk) and vanilla and mix together. Add your pinch of salt and combine. Adjust as desired. If needed add final 1/4 cup sugar and whip together.
Baste cupcake or cake with frosting. Will firm up as it sits, even at room temperature. |
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February 7th, 2011 at 6:43 am
Happy to see you back at menu planning if only so I can borrow some of your recipes and ideas. Those cupcakes look pretty good and worth the cocoa powder disaster and chocolatey baseboards. Maybe you need a corgi to come over and do KP duty. Works for me. You ladies have a delicious week.
February 7th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
[...] Maiden of Book of Yum is joining us this week with her multicultural themed meals; Chinese, Italian, Indian and [...]
February 7th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
May have to try that frosting recipe. Looks so good and it’s…….Chocolate!!!
February 7th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Love to see you posting meal plans again! That looks yummy enough to eat off the screen.
February 7th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Pumpkin sage cream sauce on raviolis sounds amazing!
February 7th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
The ravioli does sound amazing. Love the international categories. ;-)
February 8th, 2011 at 5:38 am
Chocolate always gets my attention, and that frosting looks deeelish! Of course, your French bread looks just as good. Have a good week. :)
February 8th, 2011 at 11:32 am
This looks good. I was looking for an easy frosting recipe. What are your cocoa recommendations?
February 8th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Oooh, the coconut in the frosting just jumps out and says yum!!! I love that you made this up! So cool!
February 8th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Thank you, all!
Kristen- I like Penzey’s cocoa powder. You can buy it at Penzey stores or online. :)
-Sea
February 9th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Have you tried the Chia seed flour? It’s like wheat flour, but gluten-free, its flavor is completely normal. You can substitute regular flour in recipes like cake, cookies or muffing. I used this product and recommend it 100%, my kids love cookies and brownies. This is a very good product for the whole family. There are many articles on You Tube for preparing all kinds of recipes (Nuchia Food) is an excellent product that offers Nuchia Foods.