This easy vegan chocolate frosting is buttery, chocolatey, rich and creamy to the extreme! Perfect for use on cakes, cupcakes and cookies.
This super simple vegan chocolate frosting is absolutely gorgeous on…. you guessed it – a vegan chocolate cake!
What you’ll love about this frosting is that it’s so easy and quick to prepare, and the result is rich, chocolatey, smooth and creamy, with a hint of buttercream richness and hints of vanilla.
Yum!
The recipe is a simple 5-ingredient mix of powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vegan butter, vanilla and non-dairy milk (any non-dairy milk will do).
It’s divine on a chocolate cake, but of course you can mix and match and use it on a vanilla cake too.
It’s also perfect to pipe onto cupcakes and holds up really well. The ideal is to make it as thick as possible, but still spreadable.
I have on occasion made it too thick so that once it goes into the piping syringe it won’t come out again! It’s just too thick. If that happens, add some more non-dairy milk, a drop or two at a time until you get the right consistency. And if it happens to end up too thin, add more powdered sugar until it’s the right thickness again.
With a bit of flexibility to get the right texture, this is really a foolproof recipe.
I think you are going to really love this vegan chocolate frosting and it’s one you’ll come back to again and again! It is:
- Thick
- Creamy
- Super Rich
- Extremely chocolatey
- Decadent
- So easy
If you refrigerate this frosting, it gets a delicious crystalized texture on the edges, which I love and is so great on cakes.
And once your cake is frosted, you get to decorate it, and that is too much fun! My latest favorite decorating technique – melted chocolate drizzled over this frosting with chocolate chips sprinkled over the top! So decadent.
Also it suits my decorating style which leans more towards the messy side of things.
More Vegan Frosting Recipes
- Vegan Vanilla Frosting
- Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
- Vegan Lemon Buttercream Frosting
- Vegan Buttercream Frosting
- Vegan Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Vegan Chocolate Ganache Frosting
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How To Make Vegan Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
- 3 ¾ cups Powdered Sugar (450g)
- 4 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder Unsweetened
- 3 Tablespoons Vegan Butter (45g)
- 4-5 Tablespoons Soy Milk or other non-dairy milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Add the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vegan butter, vanilla and around half the soy milk to the bowl of your stand mixer.
- Start mixing on low, gradually moving to a higher setting until thick, smooth and creamy. Add the extra soy milk in slowly, only as much as needed (see notes).
- It should be thick, but still be easily spreadable so it won’t go sliding off a cake. So if it’s not thick enough, add a little more powdered sugar.
Notes
- I usually use 5 Tablespoons soy milk in this recipe, but different brands of vegan butters have different water contents, so if you’re using one with a higher water content and use all 5 Tbsp soy milk, you might have a consistency that is too runny. So start off slow and only add in all the soy milk if you need to. You want your frosting to be thick, but still spreadable.
What brand of vegan butter do you use?
Hi Stacie, you can use any brand of vegan butter for this recipe.
Awesome recipe everyone enjoyed it. I put it on waffles with coconut sprinkles and it taste like a chocolate donut 🍩
That sounds amazing! Thanks so much for sharing and the awesome review Linda!
About this frosting, it was a lifesaver!! I had bought some canned chocolate frosting for my son’s birthday cupcakes and let’s just say, I was unable to decorate them as I’d envisioned. It was super soft and basically turned into a dripping blob of a mess on the cupcakes. I felt sad that his 30th birthday cupcakes had turned out so awful. Anyway, although, he was incredibly gracious, I decided he deserved a re-do. I found your recipe and decided to give it a try today. Oh, my gosh! It’s sooooo easy and amazing! The best part is that his cupcakes turned out exactly how I wanted them to this time around. He loves them, and that’s in large part due to you. I love how it’s lower in fat than most other recipes I’ve seen and goes together super quick as well. This will definitely be my go-to chocolate frosting recipe. Thank you! 🙂
Brilliant! Thanks so much for the great review Aimee!
I haven’t had a lot of luck baking gluten free cakes so I didn’t expect much but thought I’d give it a try and wow it’s just lovely. The recipe is easy to follow although the ingredients are a little on the expensive side as is all free food stuffs but it’s worth it when it tastes this good. I’m going to try the other gluten free recipes now I’ve got my confidence back.
This was really good !!!!! Thanks !
The best vegan chocolate frosting ever. Maybe the best frosting ever. Everyone loved it.
Awesome! So happy to hear that Patty!