This low carb cauliflower chocolate cake uses cooked cauliflower as you would a carrot cake. It's a healthy, creative way to make a keto and gluten free dessert with cauliflower.
Cauliflower in a cake? Madness I hear you cry! I thought so too when I came across a few cauliflower brownie recipes and just had to give it a try. So baked a cake out of it. The cauliflower cannot be tasted (thankfully in this case!) but helps give a moist and delicious cake. You could bake this in another tin and serve it as brownies too.
Making a cauliflower chocolate cake
Your first question may be "does it taste like cauliflower?" but the answer is no. The cauliflower gives an added moisture to the cake as well as a conversation starter. If you can bake a delicious cake out of carrot and zucchini why not cauliflower? It is the versatile vegetable after all.
I took this cake into work, offered it, watched everyone eat it, then told them of the mystery ingredient. No-one guessed. Then again my office is cake hungry and come 4pm it's a sugar rush of angry tigers.
I thought about spreading a chocolate topping over this, but I think it would be too rich. The cake was just moreish warm and the Chief taster was very surprised about the mystery ingredient. No one will guess it!!
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Cauliflower Chocolate Cake
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Cauliflower grated
- ½ cup coconut milk
- 50 grams Dark chocolate
- 1 cup coconut oil
- 2 oz cream cheese
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup flaxseed flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 3 tablespoon low carb sweetener
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon mixed spice
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C/375F degrees.
- Lightly oil a 7 inch springform cake tin.
- Place the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Place the raw cauliflower in a food processor or blender and blitz until smooth. Add the coconut milk and blend thoroughly.
- Melt the chocolate and coconut oil in a Bain Marie (bowl over simmering water).
- Add the cauliflower mixture and add the eggs, vanilla, sweetener and cream cheese. Blend well.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Pour into the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes.
- Eat and enjoy!
Notes
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