Gooey Chocolate Cake Recipe

Gooey Chocolate Cake Recipe

This delicious heart-smart cake is high in antioxidants and both plant-based iron and protein. It’s the perfect gooey treat for birthdays, the holiday season and everything in between.

Makes: 1 cake

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Gooey Chocolate Cake Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

This delicious heart-smart cake is high in antioxidants and both plant-based iron and protein. Enjoy!


Servings

1 cake

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 125g butter, at room temperature
  • 200g xylitol
  • 25g coconut flour
  • 125g almond flour
  • 1½ tsp gluten-free baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarb soda
  • Pinch Celtic sea salt
  • ½ cup gluten-free cacao
  • 4 medium eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp nut butter
  • 5 tbsp coconut milk
  • ½ cup almond milk
  • Coconut cream & crushed raspberries, for topping

Method


  • Heat oven to 180°C and grease cake tin.
  • Cream butter and xylitol together. Mix flours, baking powder, bicarb soda, sea salt and cacao together in a bowl.
  • In another bowl, whisk eggs and vanilla essence, then add butter, nut butter and coconut milk.
  • Slowly add wet mixture into dry ingredients.
  • Add almond milk until mixture is medium consistency.
  • Spoon into cake tin and bake for 40–45 mins.
  • Remove and let cool.
  • Spoon coconut cream over cake and top with crushed raspberries.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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