Coconut Sugar Frosting

I've been looking for alternatives to the usual powdered sugar frosting and have not really found any frosting recipes or icings that were worth writing about...(or trying again) until today!

If you do not have powdered sugar on hand, there is a seldom known fact that you can make your own. What you do is grind granulated sugar into the fine powdered texture of powdered or confectioners sugar. Now, if you do not have a coffee grinder in your house, this isn't going to work very well. (I've tried doing this in food processors and it doesn't get to the right texture or consistency.)

Since this worked with granulated cane sugar, I thought I'd give it a spin with granulated coconut nectar. The results were unexpected. I poured the coconut sugar into my clean coffee grinder, set the grind to espresso (fine) and turned it on. The granules turned into a fine powder with an almost caramel-ish aroma. Using the following recipe, I made a pretty tasty frosting that I used to top a homemade vanilla cake.

Mix together:
1 cup granulated coconut sugar* (Madhava brand is what I used).
*Grind to a fine powder in a coffee grinder.
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, unsalted
1/8 cup whipping cream, heavy
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
4 oz. fat free cream cheese (1/2 a brick)
For best results, pre-whip the whipping cream. Add the butter, sugar and vanilla and cream cheese until smooth.

Homemade cake from scratch - using coconut sugar in place of granulated