HEALTHY FROSTING RECIPE
A healthy frosting recipe is completely free from fat or has
low percentage of fat in it. There are various substitutes that you can use to
make a fat free and delicious healthy frosting for your cupcakes. In place of a
thick creamy milk you can use low fat or toned milk, butter can be substituted
with low fat butter. Icing sugar is used to make the frosting more thick in
terms of consistency. You can use cornstarch to get the right consistency in
place of icing sugar.
Greek yoghurt recipe
You can use a yoghurt as a healthy substitute in your
frosting recipe. A Greek yoghurt is very
light and healthy and can be easily used for frosting purposes. It is very
thick and when used on cupcakes as a frosting it does not drip off to the
sides.
Greek Frosting recipe
A VERY DELICIOUS HEALTHY LOW FAT FROSTING RECIPE.
The ingredients required are:
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| GREEK FROSTING RECIPE |
1 cup Greek yoghurt
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup powdered sugar (sifted)
METHOD
Take a bowl and whisk the yoghurt and powdered sugar
together with a beater or a spoon till the mixture turns a bit more thick. Now add the vanilla extract to it
and mix well again .Place the frosting in the fridge and refrigerate for at
least 1-2 hours.Spread it on cupcakes.
NOTE-When using yoghurt as a base for making frosting to
thicken it instead adding more icing sugar use cornstarch.Using cornstarch will
give it a frosting like consistency.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING RECIPE
A LOW FAT CHOCOLATE FROSTING RECIPE
½ cup cocoa
1 1/4cup icing sugar
Water 2-3 tablespoon
In a bowl mix cocoa powder and icing sugar sugar.Now add
water to it depending on the consistency desired
LEMON FROSTING RECIPE
This lemon frosting recipe is a very healthy frosting recipe
as it is low in fat has a tangy flavor and is very yummy
Ingredients
1 1/2 tablespoon low fat plain yoghurt
1-2 teaspoon of cornstarch (as per the consistency desired)
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| LEMON FROSTING RECIPE |
½ teaspoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon lemon rind (shredded)
½ cup icing sugar(you can even use ¾ cup of sugar if the
taste of frosting is completely tangy and less sweet add more icing sugar
depending on the flavour you want in your frosting)
METHOD
In a bowl using a beater beat the yoghurt and sugar together
till thick and well blended. Now add lemon rind and lemon juice to it and beat
again. if the frosting is not very thick and is light add first 1 teaspoon of
cornstarch to it and mix well and check the consistency.Add cornstarch as per
the consistency required for the frosting.
