Chocolate cake without flour
Juicy and chocolatey recipe – easy and delicious!
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You have no flour in the house? No problem! We bake a moist chocolate cake without flour – and it’s on the table in just an hour!
Chocolate cake without flour: the ingredients
- 300 g dark chocolate (alternatively: 150 g dark and 150 g milk chocolate)
- 150 grams of butter
- 5 eggs
- 150 grams of sugar
- 1 P. vanilla sugar
- 300 g ground almonds
- 1 cup baking powder
- Margarine for greasing the form
- Powdered sugar or cocoa powder for dusting
Preparation time: 60 minutes
Preparation: Chocolate cake without flour
- Roughly chop the chocolate and melt over a water bath (or in a saucepan over low heat). Add the butter and melt it too.
- Put the eggs in a bowl and beat them together with the sugar and vanilla sugar for a few minutes until fluffy.
- Mix the ground almonds with the baking powder. Then add it to the egg and sugar mixture together with the chocolate butter and mix everything to form a smooth dough.
- Line the bottom of a springform pan (Ø24 cm) with baking paper and grease the edge. Fill in the dough for the chocolate cake without flour, smooth it out and bake in the oven at 180 °C top/bottom heat for approx. 40 minutes. You can use the chopstick test to test whether the cake is done.
- When the chocolate cake is ready, you should let it cool down a bit. Then you can remove it from the mold, dust with icing sugar or cocoa powder as you like and serve.
Chocolate cake without flour? That’s fine!
Are you wondering how a cake without flour can succeed? In this case the ground almonds ensure the necessary consistency and replace the flour. The advantage: the chocolate cake is gluten-free and also suitable for people who suffer from celiac disease. Alternatively, by the way, you can do just as well ground hazelnuts use. Other recipes use cottage cheese instead of flour to keep the food low in carbs—like these no-flour pancakes and our low-carb waffles.
If you want to bake gluten-free, you can also open Flour made from gluten-free cereals To fall back on. These include, for example, buckwheat, millet or teff flour, but plantain, coconut or rice flour are also suitable. You can find more information about flour substitutes here.
Here you will find even more flour-free recipes, for example for bread without flour, rolls without flour, cookies without flour or cheesecake without flour.