This chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream is wealthy, moist and completely scrumptious. It’s very exhausting to inform that it’s grain free!
In actual fact, many readers have shared that they’ve taken this cake to events and everybody raved and so they had no concept it was gluten free!
I at all times frost my desserts with a basic buttercream. You simply can’t do significantly better than a candy whipped butter frosting with chocolate!
If it’s your first time to make a buttercream, please comply with the instructions precisely and take your time. It’s good to know that after all of the butter has been added, the combination will appear like it’s ruined and curdled. However, preserve mixing as a result of it can quickly spring again to life and grow to be easy and satiny.
This cake incorporates almond flour, so if it’s good to keep away from nuts, I like to recommend utilizing this chocolate cake recipe.
Relating to baking with grain-free elements, I at all times use a finely floor almond flour and Bob’s Pink Mill coconut flour. Varied manufacturers lead to completely different textures, so I alway persist with these two particular elements in order that my desserts and different baked items prove excellent each time.
I hope you take pleasure in this recipe as a lot as I do!
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream (Paleo, Grain Free, Gluten Free)
Is butter “Paleo?” Click on right here and right here for some nice data on this matter. If you happen to can’t eat butter, I like to recommend making a double batch of this chocolate buttercream frosting. As with all desserts, it’s finest to eat carefully.
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Prepare dinner Time: 35 minutes
- Whole Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Class: Dessert
- Weight loss plan: Gluten Free
For the cake batter:
For the buttercream:
- 4 massive eggs
- 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- pinch of sea salt
- 1 pound unsalted butter, softened, every stick minimize into tablespoons
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled (I used Take pleasure in Life Chocolate Chips)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 ºF and alter rack to center place. Place the chocolate and butter within the bowl of a double boiler. Soften, stirring sometimes. Put aside to chill (the combination wants to chill for a minimum of 10 minutes earlier than including the the egg combination beneath). Place the maple syrup and eggs within the bowl of a standing mixer with whisk attachment. Whisk for 5-6 minutes till pale yellow and billowy. Slowly whisk in cooled chocolate and vanilla extract.
- Sift almond flour, coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder over egg combination. Gently fold to include. Divide batter between two buttered 9-inch cake pans (I choose to line my cake pans with a spherical piece of unbleached parchment paper to make sure the cake will come out correctly). Bake desserts for 20 minutes or till a cake tester inserted in the midst of the cake comes out clear. Cool desserts for 10 minutes, run a knife across the edges after which take away the desserts from the pans. Cool utterly.
For the Frosting:
- Within the bowl of a standing mixer, mix eggs, maple syrup or honey, vanilla and pinch of salt. Set the bowl over a pot of simmering water. Whisk continuously till the combination reaches 160 levels, about 5 minutes. Take away from the warmth. Beat egg combination on medium-high with whisk attachment for 8 minutes till gentle and billowy. Cut back the velocity to medium and add butter one tablespoon at a time. When the entire butter is added, flip off the mixer and scrape down the perimeters of the bowl (at this level the buttercream would possibly look curdled, however don’t fear, it can flip creamy). Whisk the whole combination for 1 minute on excessive till gentle and fluffy. Slowly pour within the chocolate and blend till integrated.
To assemble:
- Place one cake layer on a cake stand and high with one third of the frosting. Unfold frosting evenly on the cake. Place second cake layer on high and use remaining frosting to frost the highest and sides of the cake.
*To make home made grain-free baking powder mix 1 half baking soda, 1 half arrowroot powder and a pair of elements cream of tartar. Retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 6 months.
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- Serving Dimension: Serves 12-14
