The Creamiest Icing

I used this icing by Straight Up Food for a carrot cake on my son’s birthday and it was so delicious. I made two carrot cakes, doubled the icing recipe and stacked them. With icing in between both cakes, obviously. I cannot get over how easy and delicious this icing it. I personally, don’t like fondant and prefer to avoid icing sugar if I can use dates. I added it to the carrot cake without refrigerating it first and it was super creamy.

Ingredients

• roughly 5/8 cup or 8-9 medjool dates

• 3/4 cup unsalted cashews

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, no alcohol

• fill water to cover blender, approx 3/4 cup. you can always add more

Instructions

• place all ingredients in the blender to soak for 45 minutes

• blend until smooth, will take several minutes and you’ll need your tamper

You can also add 2-3 tbsp of lemon juice for a lemon cashew sauce.