Easy Dairy Free Glaze

Making a glaze or a dairy free glaze for your desserts only takes a few ingredients. And is easily whipped up in less then 5 minutes. I find it the perfect topping for sweets like apple crisp, peach cobbler or some cake!

What Is Glaze?

A glaze is a type of frosting/icing that is a thin consistency and can be poured or drizzled over your favorite dessert. According to Domino Sugar:

“Glazes are used to give desserts a smooth or shiny finish. A glaze is usually drizzled onto a cake or applied with a pastry brush to give a glisten to pastries. Glazes also add a glassine look to fruit pies and tarts.”

What Is In A Glaze?

Glaze generally consists of milk, oil/butter, confectioners sugar and some flavour. For a very quick glaze, I make it with just oat milk and icing sugar. Other ingredients to add are vanilla extract, or another flavour you like and a pinch of salt.

How To Make Glaze Without Milk

In order to make a glaze without milk you need:

• Oat Milk: Or any plant milk like unsweetened coconut or almond milk.
• Coconut oil: or use plant butter.
• Vanilla extract: Or you can use another flavour of your choice like mint or maple extract.
• Confectioners sugar: No substitute for this. But you can make icing sugar by blending white granulated sugar.

My preference for making a dairy free glaze is oat milk because of its sweet fatty taste. Coconut is also a great option but will give it a slight coconut flavour.

Pro Tips for Glazing your Desserts:

1. Dessert should be room temp: Your cake or other dessert should be room temperature or slightly chilled. Otherwise the glaze will melt off and look funny.

2. Place on a cooling rack: For muffins and other small treats, I like to place them on a cooling rack over parchment or wax paper to catch drips.

If I am glazing a cake I glaze it right on the plate I plan to serve it on. That way I don’t need to transfer it and cause any prints in the glaze.

3. Pour into the centre: When I am pouring glaze onto a cake or a muffin, I pour it onto the centre so that it will drip down the sides of my dessert.

4. Use ziplock or piping bag: If I am wanting a drizzled look, I pour the glaze into a small ziploc bag. Then I snip a small hole in one corner of the bag and use it to drizzle in a zigzag motion over the dessert.

5. Pouring Consistency: Your glaze should be a pouring consistency. And it usually sets quickly, so if you’re adding any topping like sprinkles or nuts do it right after glazing.

Allow the glazed dessert to set for about 2 hours at room temperature before serving.

How can I use glaze?

I love so many things with a good ol’ fashioned white glaze! Any type of a coffee cake, sweat bread like a banana bread or muffins pairs perfectly with this dairy free glaze. Really you just need to experiment and see what you want to use it with. After the recipe I have listed some fall inspired dairy free recipes for you to try with this glaze!