3 Ingredient Strawberry Yogurt Frosting

If you love strawberries and yogurt, this is for you!

This strawberry yogurt frosting doesn’t taste like buttercream if that’s what you’re wondering! It’s as straightforward as it sounds. Thick, tangy, and creamy yogurt is mixed with freeze dried strawberry powder for a spreadable topping to your cakes, cupcakes, or eat it as is.

Don’t you hate it when you buy a big tub of yogurt and forget about the expiration date? That’s me. So to help me quickly finish the yogurt without wasting, I turned it into an easy “frosting” or yogurt topping for a cake (and shared it with friends) 

It’s like Greek yogurt but THICKER. This recipe was inspired by “Labneh”, a Middle Eastern “cheese” that’s made by straining the liquid whey from yogurt until it’s really thick like room temperature cream cheese.

How To Use Strawberry Yogurt Frosting

• Add as a topping for a single layer cake like in m photo

• Frost cupcakes or top soft cookies

• Eat it like thick Greek yogurt with other fruit toppings or granola

• Freeze it into a yogurt bark

Storage/Yield

This recipe makes about 180 grams of yogurt frosting. Enough to cover a single 6” cake layer on the top like in my photo.

Equipment You’ll Need

• Kitchen Scale, to measure the ingredients

• Teaspoon, to measure the vanilla

• strainer, to filter the yogurt

• coffee filter, to filer the yogurt

• small bowl, to catch the liquid whey

• rubber spatula and mixing bowl, to mix the frosting ingredients

Ingredients You’ll Need

• 300 grams Plain yogurt (about 140g after straining) 

• 30 grams Powdered sugar (if using sweetened yogurt, then skip this)

• 10 grams freeze dried strawberries (blended until powder form)

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Set a metal strainer on top of a bowl (to catch the liquid whey) with a coffee filter overnight. 

   

2. Add the 300 grams plain yogurt into the coffee filter and you can leave it uncovered or covered in the fridge overnight (about 8-12 hours).

   

   

   It should be about 140 grams after straining. 

   

3. Blend the 10 grams freeze fried strawberries until powdery.

   

   

4. In a mixing bowl, add the strained yogurt, 30 grams powdered sugar or sweetener of your choice (if using sweetened yogurt, then skip this), powdered freeze dried strawberries, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional). Mix until incorporated and it’s ready to frost! 

   

Enjoy! :) Please tag @sparklecakerie if you make this! I’d love to see and share your creations <3

BTS: Duchess (1 of our 2 furbabies) had to get 3 teefies removed yesterday. I felt sooo guilty when we dropped her off at the vet yesterday morning because she just watched us leave her there :( but she did so well! Here is a pic of her after we picked her up and brought her home. She’s really loopy but still demanding scritches on the floor. LOL The doctor prescribed lots of hugs and kisses <3