Chocolate Avocado Frosting – Chocolate Coated Katie

Do that easy and decadent chocolate avocado frosting recipe on chocolate desserts and cupcakes, or eat it by the spoonful!

Wholesome chocolate avocado frosting

With a thick, wealthy, creamy, silky easy texture due to coronary heart well being avocado, this simple chocolate avocado frosting recipe will shock just about everybody.

And there’s completely no butter or shortening required.

You want simply 5 elements to make it: avocado, unsweetened cocoa powder, pure maple syrup, pure vanilla extract, and a pinch of salt to convey out the sweetness.

It could possibly even be piped similar to common chocolate frosting!

Use it to high these Black Bean Brownies

Elements for the recipe

The frosting requires cocoa powder, sweetener, pure vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, elective chocolate chips, and naturally avocado.

Search for ripe avocados on the grocery retailer or await the fruit to ripen at residence. When prepared to make use of, they need to yield to light strain however not be overly gentle or mushy.

It’s possible you’ll use common unsweetened cocoa powder or uncooked cacao powder. For a wealthy chocolate taste, strive Dutch cocoa powder for a fourth cup of the entire quantity.

We like pure maple syrup right here. Honey, agave, powdered sugar, coconut sugar, or some widespread sugar free sweeteners additionally work.

We regularly add two tablespoons of melted coconut oil or two ounces of melted chocolate for further richness, however this isn’t required.

The recipe was tailored from this Avocado Chocolate Mousse.

Is the frosting low carb, keto, and sugar free?

It may be all three of this stuff.

For a keto chocolate frosting, substitute the maple syrup with half a cup of powdered xylitol, erythritol, or your no sugar sweetener of alternative.

If desired, you may also embody melted Sugar Free Chocolate Chips.

When ready with a sugar free sweetener, the avocado frosting incorporates lower than one gram of web carbs per serving.

We’ve not tried sweetening the icing with stevia, so make sure you report again for different readers in the event you experiment.

Step-by-step recipe video

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Serving ideas

The chocolate frosting is superb on cake or brownies.

And it’s equally fantastic as a wholesome chocolate unfold for sliced bananas, apples, toast, waffles, Vegan Pancakes, or Wholesome Banana Bread.

Or serve it as a dessert dip for strawberries.

You actually can not go unsuitable regardless of the way you select to serve it.

The chocolatey recipe might be dairy free, nut free, gluten free, oil free, sugar free, low carb, paleo, and keto pleasant.

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Tips on how to make avocado frosting

In case you are utilizing the elective chocolate chips or chopped darkish chocolate, fastidiously soften the chocolate within the microwave or by utilizing a double boiler technique.

Scoop the insides of the avocados right into a meals processor or blender. Discard the avocado peel and pits.

Mix all elements, and course of or mix till fully easy.

The avocado chocolate frosting might be unfold with a knife or piped by means of a pastry bag fitted with an icing tip.

The recipe is freed from processed elements, trans fat, and preservatives. Subsequently, it’s best to make up a batch of this avocado frosting proper earlier than you intend to make use of it.

Refrigerate leftovers for as much as about three days in an hermetic lined container.

Though leftover avocado tends to show brown within the fridge, that’s not an issue on this case since it’s already a chocolate recipe.

Whereas the blender is out, strive an Avocado Smoothie

Methods to make use of chocolate avocado frosting

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