This is a great gluten free chocolate cake recipe. It’s super easy, moist, and tasty; and kinda cool to bake, too, since the main ingredient is beans! What!? Garbanzo beans! Which are also called chick peas. So besides being a delicious cake, it’s a flour less, gluten-free cake. This cake is especially tasty with cream cheese frosting.
Chocolate Cake Recipe Ingredients:
2 15 oz cans GARBANZO BEANS
2 cups semi-sweet CHOCOLATE CHIPS
4 EGGS
1 cup SUGAR
¾ tsp BAKING POWDER
1 Tbsp VANILLA EXTRACT
2-3 Tbsp BUTTER
½ cup DRIED CHERRIES (or other dried fruit)
1 cup toasted NUTS (chopped)
POWDERED SUGAR (for dusting)
fresh BERRIES (for topping)
…or top with CREAM CHEESE frosting
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
8oz CREAM CHEESE, softened
¼ cup unsalted BUTTER, softened
2 cups POWDERED SUGAR
1 tsp VANILLA EXTRACT
1 Tbsp MILK
Chocolate Cake Recipe Directions:
- Butter up a baking dish; 8X10 or 9X11…about the size of a human head. If you need a decent baking dish, check out some current pricing for a Pyrex dish on Amazon.
- Rinse and drain garbanzo beans.
- In a food processor, combine eggs and beans and blend until smooth.
- Transfer beaten bean mixture to a large bowl and add baking powder and sugar and stir until well combined.
- On the stove, set up a double boiler and melt the chocolate chips. Add butter to the chocolate as needed to keep the chocolate smooth.
- Once melted, add the chocolate to the cake batter mix and stir until incorporated.
- Stir in vanilla extract, your favorite dried fruit (I prefer cherries or cranberries), and chopped nuts.
- Mix well and pour into buttered baking dish.
- Bake for 45 minutes in an oven preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- After 45 minutes insert a knife or toothpick into the cake to check that it is done; if wet batter sticks to the toothpick, let it cook a few minutes longer.
- Allow cake to set and firm up 10 minutes before removing from the baking dish.
- After 10 minutes, turn cake onto a baking rack and continue to let cool.
Once the cake cools, it’s ready for the next step, whatever that is…
This chocolate cake recipe is a perfect match for a cream cheese frosting, but it tastes great with just a sprinkling of powdered sugar and fruit, or believe it or not,
it tastes great plain! It’s incredibly moist, and the nuts and fruit make it almost like a brownie.
Cream Cheese Frosting Directions:
- About an hour ahead of time, set out the cream cheese and butter to soften.
- In a bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract and blend with hand mixer.
- Once ingredients begin to come together, add in the powdered sugar. Add the sugar a bit at a time to avoid a sugary blending mess.
- Mix until the frosting is smooth. To thin the frosting add a small amount of milk–no more than a Tablespoon at a time! For a thicker frosting, just add more powdered sugar.
And that’s it.
Spread on your dessert and eat away!
Give this flourless, chocolate cake recipe a go and let me know what you think!
And for another tasty dessert idea, check out my Death by Scone Recipe …it’s one of my favorite all-time treats.
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