It's New Years Eve and I've been busy today making a GFCF Chocolate Cake from a Betty Crocker cake mix along with a few other things, but I wanted to take a minute to share this icing recipe that I have worked out for Kevin. I use to buy Vanilla icing at the store and add peanut better to it for the peanut butter icing, but the last couple of times I have done that he seemed to react to it just a little. When I read the ingredients on the icing I have never found anything that he would react to such as casein or gluten, but there is that one mysterious ingredient called Natural Flavoring. Hmm could there be a butter flavoring added to that Natural Flavoring, I wonder. Did you know that some products that have Smoke Flavoring listed are smoked sometimes with Barley? So with that thought I started on a new project. A safe icing for my son. With the recipe below I used it for cupcakes that were in cupcake liners, but today I had to double it to cover my chocolate cake.
Aunt B's Peanut Butter Icing
Fair warning don't try to whisk this by hand if you are doubling it.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Natural Peanut Butter (at room temperature)
1/2 cup Vegan Margarine softened (I use Earth Balance sticks)
2 cups 10X Powder Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2 to 3 tbsp Almond Milk (I used unsweetened Vanilla)
Whisk together the first 4 ingredients; adding a tablespoon at a time of the Almond Milk for the desired consistency.
ENJOY and Have a Happy New Year!
