Coconut Flour Cake (Moist & Fluffy!)

This coconut flour cake is moist, fluffy, and filled with coconut taste! Topped with a coconut frosting, this show-stopping dessert is gluten-free and decrease in carbs.

Are you a fan of baking with coconut flour? We love baking with it, because it really transforms desserts and bakery objects into one thing fairly scrumptious. If you happen to’ve tried my coconut flour brownies, coconut flour cookies, or coconut flour muffins earlier than, you realize we’ve got issues proper!

This coconut flour cake recipe provides one other to your baking arsenal.

Chances are you’ll be aware of my coconut flour chocolate cake. This recipe is just a little totally different as a result of it’s extra like a clean canvas (much like a low carb vanilla cake). It’s the proper cake to make if you wish to experiment with coconut flour; from right here, you possibly can jazz it up and taste it any method you want!

Desk of Contents

1. Recipe highlights
2. Components wanted
3. Tricks to make the most effective recipe
4. Storage directions
5. Incessantly requested questions
6. Extra scrumptious recipes utilizing coconut flour
7. Coconut Flour Cake (Recipe Card)

Recipe highlights

• It’s low carb. Coconut flour is of course decrease in carbs and better in protein, making it a wonderful low carb baking staple. Consider this as a more healthy model of my basic coconut cake recipe.
• It’s tremendous moist and cakey. Not like different flours, coconut flour tends to make baked items extra cakey whereas retaining issues moist, which is ideal for a cake!
• The coconut taste isn’t overpowering. You may preserve issues neutral-tasting or amp up the coconut taste.,
• You should utilize any frosting you want. I like to make use of a easy vanilla coconut frosting, however you need to use whichever frosting you favor.

Components wanted

• Coconut flour. Sift your coconut flour to make sure there aren’t any clumps. Don’t be shocked by the quantity used on this recipe. Coconut flour acts like a sponge and soaks up liquid very simply (not like different flours). 
• Baking soda. Provides the cake some rise and fluffiness. 
• Salt. A should for any good cake recipe. 
• Eggs. Room temperature eggs which were separated. The whites will likely be whipped with the cream of tartar.  
• Cream of tartar. Mixed with the egg whites and whipped till stiff peaks are fashioned. This ensures the cake to be tremendous fluffy. 
• Coconut oil. Refined coconut oil. You can attempt utilizing butter when you’d favor. 
• Sugar of selection. White, brown, or coconut sugar works. For a sugar-free and/or low-carb model, use allulose.
• Coconut extract. The important thing ingredient to present the scrumptious and delicate coconut taste all through. 
• Frosting. Any vanilla frosting works. I like to make use of a easy store-bought one, however in case you are watching your carbs, attempt a keto frosting.
• Shredded and toasted coconut flakes. Non-compulsory, and added to the highest of the frosting. 

Tips on how to make a coconut flour cake

I’ve included step-by-step images beneath to make this recipe straightforward to comply with at dwelling. For the total printable recipe directions and ingredient portions, scroll to the recipe card on the backside of this put up.

Step 1- Prep the elements. Mix your coconut flour, baking soda, and salt collectively in a small bowl and put aside. In a mixing bowl, add your egg whites and cream of tartar and beat collectively till stiff peaks kind. In a separate bowl, whisk collectively your coconut oil, egg yolks, and granulated sweetener till mixed.

Step 2- Make the cake batter. Subsequent, add your dry elements and coconut extract and blend till mixed. Slowly fold in your whipped egg whites and blend them into the batter. 

Step 3- Bake. Switch your cake batter to an 8-inch cake pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or till a skewer comes out clear. Permit the cake to chill fully earlier than frosting it. 

Tricks to make the most effective recipe

• The elements make an 8-inch cake. If you happen to’d love to do a layer cake, double the elements. For a triple-layer cake, triple the elements.
• Don’t overbake the cake. The cake will proceed to prepare dinner within the cake pan whereas it’s cooling down. Take away it from the oven when a skewer comes out clear.
• Don’t fear if the cake seems just a little tough across the edges. As soon as it’s frosted, it can look unbelievable. 
• When folding in your egg whites, they are going to begin to deflate. Don’t fear about that, the cake will nonetheless have a fluffy construction. 

Storage directions

To retailer: Leftover cake ought to at all times be saved within the fridge, coated, to maintain it moist. As it’s decrease carb cake, I like to recommend you devour it inside every week. Any longer and the cake will turn into fairly soggy. 

To freeze: Place leftover slices of cake in a shallow container and retailer within the freezer for as much as 2 months. Thaw in a single day within the fridge.

Incessantly requested questions

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