Has anybody made tofu icing?

[TooTicky]

dd2's b'day tomorrow and particularly as she's a bit under the weather I'm trying to avoid sugar and make her cake healthy.

Can I just point out that 0.33333333333333 cups is actualy 1/3 cup. There's a cup for it too. Much simpler

I thought BLEAGH! when I saw tofu icing too but it's really no different from the cream cheese frosting you make for carrot cake is it? It's just from soybeans instead of dairy.

Beetroot cake is no odder than carrot or courgette cake although I also thought bleagh when I read that. But I don't like beetroots so I'm not sure I can bring myself to try this!

And it needs to be clarified that it is fresh beetroot you need,not one of those hideous things in enamel stripping malt vinegar.

Doesn't the colour make it look like it's been dragged across an abbatoir floor?

Moondog and Mercy .... I urge you to open your minds to new flavours. You don't need bovine mucus and pus to make a decent icing. Honest!

I don't make tofu icing and parsnip cake just to be difficult. Nor am I sacrificing flavour for health. On the contrary, I find the two are inextricably linked.

Most ordinary icing is cloying and overbearing in sweetness. It leaves me with that sickly feeling I get when I've eaten food with so little actual nourishment.

IME kids at other peoples' parties tend to agree because they leave lots of their cake and icing.

It may sound unlikely to the uninitiated, but almost all 20 kids and plenty of parents lapped up my parsnip cake believe it or not. Obviously I didn't reveal the 'offending' ingredient. It was the most successful cake I've made, which surprised even me.

I'm certainly inspired to experiment with a tofu alternative to nasty buttery, fatty, nutrient-free icing. I love tofu ice cream after all. Way nicer than the horrible dairy sort.

Tooticky ... I think I'll give the beetroot cake a try. I don't fancy the buttermilk though. I wonder if there's scope for improvisation there.

I've just baked beetroot and chocolate mini muffins (ie I only had fairy cake cases) and they're really good. I replaced buttermilk with soya and a bit of extra oil. Next time I will use chocolate chips instead of cocoa powder.

Thouroughly recommended. The kids love them and they're a great colour.

Thanks tooticky.

Soupdragon, it actually never occurred to me to put 1/3 as I was thinking in terms of putting the 1 over the 3 which you can't do on a modern silly keyboard.
Spidermama - that's fantastic. It's amazing how easy it is to veganise cakes and people really do never know.
In case anybody's wondering, I made a fab applesauce and raisin cake and topped it with tofu icing and organic naturally-coloured sprinkles and everybody yummed it. And nobody thought they were being deprived

Icing is fabulous. Ooooh, coffee butter icing on a coffee walnut cake from Konditor and Cook. Worth selling your children for. Delish. Slaver.

(Tofu irritates my IBS, anyway.)

Quick - what time do Konditor and cook shop. And would I get more for DS if i washed him a bit?

close, i mean what time do the CLOSE....

lol at SM and TT hyperventilating over weirdy beardy food.

Hey,I'll try anything.

Has anyone tried Good seeds? Hemp seeds roasted in raw cane sugar. Mmmmmm!
You could, of course, do it yourself and I will get round to it one day. In fact I'll do a mixture of nuts and hemp seeds.

psst honey, nectar and syrup are full of sugar, call it what you like its still sugar.

psst again, kids can get sugar its OK unless they have a medical condition of somekind.

Turky (and all of that part of world) amazes me SM.
Everybody fom 18 month up eats sunflower seeds all the tie.
So funy to see a babe in apushchair experlty cracking one between their teeth!
I roast pumpkin seeds.

I've got some lightly salted Good seed, but confess to finding it a bit unchewable. I believe you can now get hulled hemp seed for wimps, so maybe I'll try that.
I love all other seeds though!
Amazing to hear about little ones eating sunflower seeds in turkey - can you imagine the health visitors panicking if we did it over here? This is such a namby pamby country.

Skribble, sugar is okay but most people eat too much of it and refining it doesn't help. I think it's nice if children can learn to appreciate different/lesser sweetnesses. My ds2 happily crunches up green blackberries, which pleases me, although he will quite happily take any sweets/chocolate that come his way. I'm glad he doesn't find them (the berries) unpalatable - I think most people would. Including me

parsnip cake sounds yummy.... do you have the recipie?

NannyL I'll try to remember where I got it from when I get time and post the recipe.

Haven't read whole thread but I make a yummy icing from philadelphia style cheese and fruit spread (the kind sweetened with fruit juice). You just blend it together, about 2 parts cream cheese to 1 part fruit spread and it is very nice indeed.

Ok, read it now and see you are not keen on dairy, Tooticky - you could maybe try silken tofu mixed with fruit spread, it's a similar consistency to philadelphia IMO. I know you can get vegan cream cheese but we prefer the real thing as the vegan one is chock full of odd additives.