A thick, sweet and creamy Cream Cheese Frosting made with Protein Powder that’s actually healthy! Use this sugar-free treat as a spread or even pipe it. It holds shape and the possibilities are endless!

This frosting is so good, it deserved a post of its own.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet, but I’m really into the whole concept of using protein powder as a powdered sugar sub. So when I saw a pretty frosted cupcake the other day, I knew what my next use-case would be!

Since I didn’t have the time to bake a cupcake for a shoot, I used a muffin from Smart Baking Company. I would never eat a baked good from outside my kitchen, but this is the one exception!

Those muffins are like 100 calories each, gluten-free, sugar-free, high-fiber and guess what, Keto friendly too! Just like this frosting; So they were basically meant to be!

Use my link + the code HAYLSKITCHEN and get some for a 10% discount.

The Perfect Cream Cheese frosting!

Smooth
Creamy
Tangy
Sweet
Sugar-free
High protein
Easy to make
Easy to use
DELICIOUS!

Ingredients for this small-batch sugar-free cream cheese frosting

Reduced Fat Cream Cheese

To keep the calories and fat low and make this a lot healthier than the normal, I used the reduced cream cheese.

This is also known as Neufchâtel, and you can find it right by the regular cream cheese.

If you want, feel free to use the original version.

Vanilla Protein Powder

This basically replaces the powdered/confectioners sugar in your typical cream cheese frosting.

I used a Whey-Caesin blend from Quest Nutrition. If you use a pure whey protein you might need a little less milk than what I used.

Also, since this is a vanilla flavored powder, you don’t need to add any extract.

Almond Milk

Any other milk will work just fine, I used almond because that was all I had.

How to make this easy homemade cream cheese protein frosting

Just one step:

Whisk together the cream cheese, protein powder and milk in a bowl.

Note, if your cream cheese is just out of the fridge and hard, soften it first by microwaving it for about 15 seconds.

Can you store this Sugar free frosting?

If you’ve used it for a baked good, it will keep at room temperature for 2 hours, after which you need to refrigerate.

You can keep the frosting in an airtight container in the fridge for about 3 days.

If you’d like, you can freeze it (airtight container again) for about 2-3 weeks.

Vegan, Paleo and Dairy Free?

Try a non-dairy cream cheese instead, or make my yogurt-based protein frosting.

Some ideas to use this healthy protein powder frosting

This cream cheese frosting can be used anywhere you’d use a regular – on top of a carrot cake, spiced cupcakes, red velvet anything, even cookies maybe!

Here’s some of my recipes to try it on: