Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting

Published 11/3/2022 • Updated 3/17/2024

Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting

This healthy cream cheese frosting is a lightened up with a bit of Greek yogurt and natural sugar. Use this delicious cream cheese frosting on all of your favorite desserts like pumpkin cake, apple cake, and other easy dessert recipes.

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.

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

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! Apple Cake

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.