Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting

This Greek yogurt cream cheese frosting is the most delicious healthy cream cheese frosting we’ve ever had! It’s lightened up, but still equally delicious!

We love this lightened up cream cheese frosting recipe so much because it’s lower in both sugar and calorie than classic cream cheese frosting, but tastes JUST as good!

This recipe is made with all-natural sugar, part Greek yogurt, and is naturally gluten-free! Keep reading to learn how to make it.

Ingredients

All you need are 4 simple ingredients to make the most delicious frosting out there!

• Cream cheese – feel free to use nonfat for full-fat. Both work!
• Plain nonfat Greek yogurt – for this recipe, we used nonfat Greek yogurt, but if you’re a full-fat kind of person feel free to use that!
• Maple syrup – maple syrup is our favorite all-natural sweetener, especially for this recipe because it’s warm and sweet!
• Vanilla extract – every dessert recipe deserves a splash of vanilla.

How to Make Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting

Our healthy cream cheese frosting recipe only takes 10 minutes to put together! Here’s how to do it:

1. Add all of the ingredients into a large bowl.
2. Then, use your hand mixer to whip all of the ingredients together until smooth.
3. Use immediately on your favorite cakes and breads.

Want some quick tips on how to soften cream cheese? Check out this post from our sister site, The Cheese Knees.

Want to turn your frosting into a glaze?

Looking to turn your healthy cream cheese frosting into more of a drippy glaze? Simply add a little bit more maple syrup OR almond milk/milk in order to thin it out to reach your desired consistency.

What to Use Your Frosting On

From cupcakes, to muffins, to loaves, use this healthy cream cheese frosting on anything and everything! Here are some of our fav baked goods to try it on:

• Healthy Pumpkin Cake (pictured in the first photo!)
• Healthy Carrot Cake
• Iced Oatmeal Cookies
• Apple Cake
• Cherry Cobbler Bars
• Fruit Pizza

Flavor Variations

This is such a great base recipe for cream cheese frosting. Here are some ideas to really take it up a notch!

• jam/preserve
• mini chocolate chips
• peanut butter/nut butter
• orange zest

Storage

Store leftover Greek yogurt cream cheese frosting in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

To use after refrigeration: bring frosting to room temperature. Then, add a little bit of milk and use your hand mixer to whip it until smooth.

Can you freeze cream cheese frosting?

We don’t recommend freezing cream cheese frosting because it is made from dairy. Often times when dairy thaws, it curdles and/or thaws with a weird texture.