Gluten free low carb chocolate cake

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 12
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 171.8
  • Total Fat: 13.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 15.4 mg
  • Sodium: 20.4 mg
  • Total Carbs: 9.7 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 4.2 g
  • Protein: 4.9 g

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Introduction

This is a dense, filling low carb chocolate cake made with nut flours instead of high carb foods such as rice flours etc. Omitting the chocolate topping will reduce the carbs even further. This can also be adapted to other ingredients such as adding different chopped nuts, or increasing the carbs with chocolate chips or the addition of berries.
Sweetener to the equivalent of up to a 1/4 cup of sugar can be added. I find that if you don't have a sweet tooth lower amounts can be used.
This is a dense, filling low carb chocolate cake made with nut flours instead of high carb foods such as rice flours etc. Omitting the chocolate topping will reduce the carbs even further. This can also be adapted to other ingredients such as adding different chopped nuts, or increasing the carbs with chocolate chips or the addition of berries.
Sweetener to the equivalent of up to a 1/4 cup of sugar can be added. I find that if you don't have a sweet tooth lower amounts can be used.

Number of Servings: 12

Ingredients

    Cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened, 2 tbsp
    Flax Seed Meal (ground flax), 2 tbsp
    coconut flour 1 Tablespoon
    Hazelnuts, 0.25 cup, ground
    Almonds, 1.5 cup, ground
    Salt, 1 dash
    Apples, fresh, 1 medium
    Egg, fresh, 1 large
    Coconut Oil, 2 tbsp
    Sweetener equivalent to 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) of sugar.
    Green and blacks 70% chocolate, 100 gram(s) (optional adjust nutritional info)

Directions

Pre heat oven to 160 Centigrade ( 320 Fahrenheit)
Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl. Mix all the wet in another bowl. Add wet to dry and stir well. Leave out chocolate.
Pour into a greased, lined or square cake tin, it is better to aim for a shallow cake than a deep one as the centres take longer to bake than with wheat flour. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on depth of tin.
Cool in the tin for 30 minutes then carefully turn out.
Melt the chocolate (optional) and spread over the top. Cut into 12 pieces whilst the chocolate topping is still soft.


Serving Size: Makes 12

Number of Servings: 12

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user DISCOVERLIFE.