Strawberry Frosting

By coffeycake

(Dairy/Refined Sugar Free, Natural Color, Paleo)

Ingredients

• Ingredients:
• This frosting is reminiscent of the light and fluffy Italian meringue butter cream....only egg free!
• 1 cup organic palm shortening, I bought Spectrum at the store (or order thru Tropical Traditions)
• 2/3 cup honey/maple syrup
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 Tablespoons arrowroot powder
• 4 teaspoons coconut flour
• 2 tablespoons canned chilled coconut milk cream (just the cream from the top)
• 1 cup *Freeze dried raspberries(sift powder to remove the seeds) or strawberries ground to a powder, yielding about 6 tablespoons
• You can find these at any health food store or order online. We have easy access to the Just Tomatoes brand but you can also order them through nuts.com and other places online.
• See more at: http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/#sthash.Pvn6MEGZ.dpuf

Details

Adapted from urbanposer.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Grind the freeze dried berries till they become a fine powder. Take your time, stop and stir it if needed then grind again! The strawberries get powdery much faster than the raspberries. If needed you can sift the berry powder . I use a small coffee grinder to do mine.

Combine all the above ingredients in a bowl except the chilled coconut cream. Beat until smooth. Add the chilled coconut cream and beat till well combined.

Enjoy right away. Once piped, the frosting will hold up well at room temp (75 degrees or less) for at least 5 hours and still stay fluffy and beautiful. However, it will melt (as does all butter cream) if left too long in warmer temperatures, especially if sitting in direct sunlight.

Can be chilled once piped but it will harden and need to come to room temp before serving.

Cupcakes must be completely cool before frosting.

Makes about 1 1/2 cups of buttercream. Enough to generously pipe 10-12 cupcakes (like seen in the pic below)

This recipe goes great with my Coconut Flour Double Chocolate Cupcakes! - See more at: http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/#sthash.Pvn6MEGZ.dpuf