This is a super easy recipe for making easy vegan drip icing in a flash! Great for all your vegan cakes and bakes and looks great. The secret to this vegan drip icing is the cacao butter. It helps the drip set hard so you have more control over your drip cake effect.
Easy Vegan Drip Icing
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1 1/2 half cup 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 100 grams vegan white chocolate ((I use Sweet William Chocolate))
- 20 grams cacao butter
- 70 grams coconut cream
Instructions
- Place almost all chopped chocolate and cocoa butter in the top of a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over (not in) a saucepan of simmering water
- Stir constantly until melted, making sure not to heat chocolate above 31C-32C / 88F-90F
- Take off heat and stir in extra chocolate until melted then stir in room temp coconut cream (if it’s cold it will set the drip)
- Add to pipping bag (or however you like to drip your icing) and always do a test before adding it to your cake
Notes
- I find adding cacao butter to vegan white chocolate helps it set harder
- If you want ultimate control over your drip icing you can use a chocolate cooling spray such as this one to lightly spray onto the drip at the point you want it to stop
- If your drip is setting to quickly, just place back onto double boiler
- Add less colour to the coconut cream as it tends to darken once added to chocolate
- If you want to work with a runnier drip add more coconut cream
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Cake Decorating, Cake Frosting, Chocolate
Keywords: dairy free, drip icing, drip sauce, egg free, vegan, vegan baking, vegan cake decorating, vegan frosting
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Hi Sarah, how see through is the drip? I’m wanting a vibrant orange drip that’s not transparent and have yet to master it. Will give this one a try
It’s not see-through
I can’t find vegan white chocolate and I use vegan chocolate? (Ex enjoy life chocolate chips) my sons birthday is Tuesday!
Yes but you won’t be able to colour it
Can I use gel color (i.e. Americolor to color the drip), or do I need to use an oil-based/candy color?
Yes americolor is great
Would you use this to make hot chocolate bombs or would it be better to use just the melted chocolate alone?
Thank you!
I would just use chocolate.
Hi Sara, I’m excited to try this out for cakes but do you think this would also work for cake pops?
Hey Mim
Yes! It definitely will work for cake pops.
Used this recipe for my first ever drip cake and it was perfect. Thank you.
★★★★★
Hi, can I refrigerate left over and re-melt and use again?
Yes xo
Hi, when you say coconut cream, do you mean the thick part at the top of the tin?
Yes xo