Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Share This Post

Ingredients:

Cake

  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup coconut sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

Glaze

  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup full fat canned coconut milk
  • to taste maple syrup optional- if the frosting is too bitter for your taste

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 190 C/375 F. Line the bottom of an 20 cm/8″ spring form cake pan with parchment paper.
  2. In a saucepan, melt butter (or coconut oil) over medium heat then add chocolate chips, remove from heat, and stir until completely smooth.
  3. Add rest of ingredients for cake and whisk until smooth.
  4. Pour batter into the cake pan and bake on 375F for 30 minutes, then cool.
  5. For the frosting, heat coconut milk over medium heat. Once simmering, remove from heat, add chocolate chips, and stir until melted and combined. Whisk until completely smooth, then pour over the cake and chill until it reaches desired consistency (about 1-2 hours in the freezer).

Print Recipe

 

Related Posts

Why are foods fortified with folic acid?
MTHFR

Why are foods fortified with folic acid?

When it comes to fertility, we know that folate is one of the most important nutrients needed for miscarriage prevention as it directly impacts the ...
Read More →
The Methylation Myths: MTR & MTRR
Genes

The Methylation Myths: MTR & MTRR

Following on from the first post in our series addressing why methylfolate is NOT necessarily the answer to a patient’s MTHFR mutation, this week we ...
Read More →
Coconut Shake
MTHFR

Coconut Shake

Ingredients: 6 coconut ice cubes (freeze coconut milk in an ice tray the night before) 1 banana (can be frozen) 1 Tbsp flax oil 2 ...
Read More →
Circulating Unmetabolized Folic Acid Relationship to Folate Status and Effect of Supplementation
MTHFR

Circulating Unmetabolized Folic Acid: Relationship to Folate Status and Effect of Supplementation

Abstract There are increasing concerns that exposure to unmetabolized folic acid, which results from folic acid intakes that overwhelm the liver’s metabolic capacity, may be ...
Read More →
The Importance Of Methyltransferases
Genetic SNP's

The Importance Of Methyltransferases

The Importance Of Methyltransferases Without them, life would not be possible. Put simply, methyltransferases are enzymes responsible for adding and/or removing methyl groups from molecules ...
Read More →
Fertility

Polyphenols and Phenols – Prenatal Exposure – What you need to know & 5 Practical Tips

If you’re reading this, you probably already have some sense of what phenols are, and what they do. But if you have no idea what ...
Read More →
Scroll to Top
Carolyn Ledowsky

Stay Connected!

Sign up for our monthly newsletter with current MTHFR research, health tips, recipes, special offers and news about upcoming events including Carolyn’s live Q&A.

Subscribe