Coconut Flour Cake – Candy As Honey

This Coconut Flour Cake is a moist, fluffy gluten-free, low-carb birthday cake for coconut lovers. You’ll love its mild coconut crumb crammed with vanilla frosting.

I’m by no means out of concepts to bake desserts with coconut flour as a result of it’s really easy to digest, gluten-free, and low in carbs. Additionally, my son is popping seven and requested me to bake a two-layer vanilla cake for this big day.

I normally bake my keto vanilla cake for him, nevertheless it’s made with almond flour, and he’s not an enormous fan. Nevertheless, he loves my keto coconut cake or keto coconut flour chocolate cake. So, I combined these earlier recipes to create a brand new recipe. A scrumptious coconut flour cake with moist vanilla crumb.

Substances and Substitutions

• Coconut Flour – Use a spoon to fill your measuring cups, frivolously pack the coconut flour, then sweep the highest to take away any extra. This prevents including an excessive amount of coconut and makes truffles dry and dense.
• Baking Powder to boost the cake or use half baking soda.
• Vanilla Extract – Coconut flour tastes somewhat bit coconutty. Including vanilla extract covers the coconut taste and turns this cake into the proper vanilla cake.
• Massive Eggs – Contemporary and at room temperature for quarter-hour. You should use eggs on this recipe, and egg-free replacers, like flax eggs, received’t work in any respect.
• Canned Coconut Cream or heavy cream in case you are not dairy-free. Ensure you shake the can of coconut cream to carry the 2 layers that usually kind within the can collectively. Then, measure it in measuring cups. You too can use full-fat coconut milk for a lighter texture.
• Granulated Sweetener – I like to bake with low-carb sweetener and use erythritol or allulose however any granulated sweetener works on this recipe.
• Salt is optionally available nevertheless it improve the general flavors

Making Coconut Flour Cake

1. First, whisk the moist substances in a big bowl. Whisk room temperature eggs, coconut cream, and vanilla extract energetically till clean.
2. Whisk in dry substances: coconut flour, baking powder, and the sweetener you like – I used erythritol.

3. The batter is prepared when you possibly can’t see any lumps of coconut flour. It must be fairly thick and look a bit grainy and dry.
4. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line two 6-inch baking pans with coconut oil or cooking oil spray and canopy the underside and sides with greased parchment paper. You too can use an 8-inch cake spherical cake pan for those who make a single-layer coconut flour cake. Divide the batter evenly into the 2 pans and smoothen the highest with a silicone spatula or the again of a spoon.
   Bake the cake for 20 to 25 minutes for 6-inch cake pans or 25 to half-hour for a big cake pan.
   Let the cake layers settle down for five minutes within the pan, then launch them on a cooling rack and funky at room temperature for a number of hours earlier than frosting.

Frosting Coconut Flour Cake

Quiet down the coconut flour cake earlier than frosting and assembling the layers. Right here’s the most effective frosting for this coconut cake:

After frosting the cake, sprinkle unsweetened shredded coconut or toasted coconut flakes on high and sides of the frosted cake.

Place the frosted cake in an hermetic container within the fridge for an hour earlier than slicing. Or retailer it for as much as 4 days in case you are meal-prepping the cake prematurely for a party.

Professional Ideas To Bake A Cake With Coconut Flour

• Use contemporary coconut flour. Coconut flour is one probably the most liquid absorbent flour on account of its excessive quantity of fibers. In case your coconut flour is previous, you in all probability must open the jar the place you retailer the flour many instances. Each time you do, it captures lots of moisture from the air. Then, when utilized in a cake recipe, it received’t take up the liquid very properly. It would additionally kind lumps and a grainy cake.
• Measure coconut flour with precision utilizing the spoon-to-scoop method. This implies don’t dig the entire measuring cup into the coconut flour however as a substitute gently fill the cup with a spoon, frivolously pack, then degree up the highest to take away extra.
• Use room-temperature eggs to keep away from lumps
• Use full-fat cream or coconut cream to hydrate the batter to the utmost and get the final word moist cake crumb you might be after. Keep away from almond milk or cartoon of coconut milk that dries out the crumb.
• Don’t skinny out the batter. Coconut flour cake batter is thick and dense, and it’s regular.
• Bake on the middle rack. Even in case you are making a two-layer cake, be sure you bake the cake layers on the identical degree to ensure they bake on the identical pace. In any other case, bake one underneath the middle rack and one on the middle rack, and swap locations midway by means of baking.
• Play with flavors. For instance, you possibly can swap vanilla extract for lemon extract and add lemon zest to make a coconut flour lemon cake.

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About The Creator

Carine Claudepierre

Hello, I am Carine, the meals blogger, creator, recipe developer, revealed creator of a cookbook and lots of ebooks, and founding father of Candy As Honey.

I’ve an Accredited Certificates in Vitamin and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Effectively School International (previously Cadence Well being). I am keen about sharing all my simple and attractive recipes which might be each scrumptious and wholesome. My experience within the area comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb weight-reduction plan. However I am additionally properly versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a extra balanced weight-reduction plan the place I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Food plan

Cooking and Baking is my true ardour. In reality, I solely share a small portion of my recipes on Candy As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two children earlier than I’ve time to take any footage!

All my recipes are not less than triple examined to ensure they work and I take satisfaction in protecting them as correct as doable.

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