Chocolate – Which alternative fats, not butter or avocado, are good to make chocolate frosting

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This (Allrecipes Chocolate Avocado Pudding) is a great recipe for Chocolate Avocado pudding, which I use as a frosting for cakes. So, sticking away from normal basics for frostings such as butter, what could I substitute for the avocado in this recipe?

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Ingredients

2 large avocados – peeled, pitted, and cubed
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup coconut milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 pinch ground cinnamon

Directions

Blend avocados, cocoa powder, brown sugar, coconut milk, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate pudding until chilled, about 30 minutes.

Best Answer

That looks like a vegan recipe to me, so depending on your audience, you should stick to vegan ingredients... Therefore, a mix of:

  • cocoa butter (can be replaced by coconut fat if too expensive)
  • grapeseed oil or any cold-pressed natural oil (pumpkin, flaxseed, cannabis, ...)

would be best under the circumstances.

Why?

Pureed avocados contain about 18% oil with the rest being moisture and solids, so a mixture without any butter:

  • aligning with the goal of the current ingredients
  • enhancing the taste of the cocoa powder
  • having the same kind of texture in the final product,

leads me to believe that above mix can come extremely close to what you're trying to accomplish.

How?

Cocoa butter is a solid at room temperature, so you'll have to heat the cocoa butter to body temperature (the melting point being in between 34–38 °C), so I would start off with 30% melted cocoa butter and 70% grapeseed oil (at the same T°) and use that.

If your dessert becomes too solid, replace 10% of the cocoa butter with grapeseed oil and if the reverse, replace 10% more grapeseed oil by cocoa butter and keep refining your recipe until it's just perfect for you.

A comment with the outcome of your experiments with the exact vegetable oil and the % of cocoa/vegetable oil would be appreciated

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