Fudgy Chocolate Avocado Cake – Sugar Free Londoner

Sink your fork right into a slice of fudgy chocolate avocado cake topped with lashings of silky-smooth chocolate avocado frosting! You’d by no means guess this decadent-tasting dessert is sugar free, dairy-free and gluten-free. You can not style the avocado in any respect – it makes this recipe deliciously moist but surprisingly mild.

“Oh my! This is likely one of the greatest chocolate muffins I’ve ever tried! Thanks for the recipe! Will likely be undoubtedly making it commonly.” (Gayane)

If you happen to had instructed me a number of years in the past that I would be singing the praises of avocado chocolate cake immediately, I would most likely have laughed in your face. Avocado was one thing you’d mash into guacamole, full cease.

Since then, I’ve found the fantastic thing about greens in baking. From my tremendous simple Keto carrot mug cake to moist pumpkin brownies and chocolate avocado brownies, I now know that veggies work splendidly in desserts!

My complete household ate and beloved this cake (which I introduced to them as a mere “chocolate cake”). My daughter even requested for a second slice. You might want to know that formally neither of my two youngsters like avocado. They might even go so far as saying they “hate” it. See? If the haters prefer it…. it have to be good!

Soar to:

A Wholesome Chocolate Cake

Normally, I would use butter and double/heavy cream in my cake recipes. Changing these dairy fat with avocado turns this cake right into a dietary powerhouse: Avocado is full of nutritional vitamins, incorporates extra potassium than bananas, is excessive in fibre and full of heart-healthy monounsaturated fatty acids.

Do not get me improper. Butter in muffins tastes nice – my keto chocolate cake is completely mouthwatering. However by swapping them out for avocado, this cake tastes LIGHTER than an everyday cake – even though it’s amazingly fudgy.

In abstract, this avocado cake recipe is low in energy, low carb and sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and grain free.

It’s so wholesome that you possibly can eat it for breakfast!

Substances

Let’s discuss in regards to the elements:

• Almond Flour – I exploit floor almonds in most of my recipes, this one included. This is similar as common almond flour within the US.
• Avocado – The success of this recipe is all the way down to the standard of your avocados. Sadly, most of us shouldn’t have the pleasure to choose a ripe avocado from a tree. From my expertise, ripen-at-home avocados are likely to go from onerous to brown. If you store for avos, ensure they’re ripe and mushy. The creamier your avocados, the higher your cake will end up.
• Coconut Cream – That is the thick a part of a can of coconut milk. Merely place your coconut milk within the fridge for a few hours earlier than utilizing it (or in a single day). This may separate the cream from the liquid. If you may get maintain of it, you can even purchase coconut cream in a can.
• Eggs – Use room temperature, medium eggs. Alternatively, use 2 further giant eggs.
• Darkish Chocolate and Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – The darkish chocolate makes the frosting luxuriously wealthy and creamy.
• Almond Milk – I all the time use unsweetened almond milk. After all, any milk of your alternative works.
• Sweetness – I like to make use of sugar-free sweeteners in my muffins. On this recipe, I used powdered erythritol. Allulose, monk fruit sweetener or xylitol will work equally nicely. Use coconut sugar as a paleo possibility.
• Vanilla Extract and Baking Powder – Vanilla provides a heat flavour be aware whereas baking powder

See the recipe card for full info on elements and portions.

Directions

It’s surprisingly simple to make an avocado cake. Listed below are the fundamental steps.

For detailed directions, scroll all the way down to the recipe card.

PREPARATIONS

Line a 7-inch springform with parchment paper and grease the perimeters with oil so the cake doesn’t stick.

Preheat the oven.

STEP 1 – CAKE

Mix the avocado in a meals processor with the eggs, almond milk, coconut cream, cocoa powder and vanilla extract. Mix for a couple of minutes till the combination is completely {smooth} and there aren’t any avocado lumps left.

If essential, scrape down the perimeters with a spatula in between mixing.

STEP 2

Now add the remaining dry elements – almond flour, baking powder and sweetener of your alternative.

Proceed mixing till every part is well-combined.

STEP 3

Fill the batter into the cake pan and {smooth} the highest with a spatula.

Or, gently pound the pan onto the kitchen counter so the batter can self-level.

STEP 4

Bake the avocado cake within the oven for about 30-35 minutes. It’s prepared when the highest is agency and cracks are beginning to present like within the picture above. The within ought to nonetheless be somewhat fudgy.

STEP 5 – FROSTING

Soften the chocolate in a double boiler or within the microwave (in 30-second bursts) and put aside.

Mix the avocado, sweetener of your alternative, cocoa powder and almond milk in a meals processor till completely {smooth}. Then, add the melted chocolate and mix once more till nicely mixed.

STEP 6

Slather the frosting over your COMPLETELY COOLED cake (you don’t need the frosting to soften!) and revel in!

Professional Ideas

Mix nicely. The batter will end up smoothest when you use a meals processor or high-speed blender. If you do not have both, the attachment of a stick blender also needs to give the identical end result. On this case, mix the avocado and moist elements in two batches, then combine the remainder of the dough in a bowl along with your electrical mixer.

This fashion, you may be certain that there aren’t any inexperienced avocado specks within the cake.

Serve absolutely cooled. One other tip value mentioning is that this cake tastes greatest when it’s at room temperature. Don’t serve it warmed.

Recipe FAQs

Variations 

Nut Free: You may make this cake utilizing ¾ cup of coconut flour. Coconut flour absorbs extra liquid, that is why you want much less of it. It is also potential to interchange the almond flour with a 50/50 mix of sunflower seed flour and sesame seed flour.

Amp up the chocolate: Add 2 oz of melted unsweetened or darkish chocolate (minimal 85% cocoa solids) to the batter. This may make it even fudgier, extra like a brownie.

Pipe the frosting: If the frosting cools within the fridge for round 2 hours, it turns into pipeable.

Utilizing completely different cake pans: I used a small 7-inch diameter springform. This implies my cake is taller. When you have a 9-inch (common dimension) springform, your cake shall be flatter and the baking time will cut back by 5 minutes. The baking period in an oblong tin shall be much like the 7-inch springform.

Cupcakes: This recipe makes nice cupcakes. Bake them for 25 minutes. I like to recommend rising the quantity of frosting so you may generously pipe it on high.

Storage

Retailer the cake in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days.

Avocado cake freezes nicely for as much as 3 months. Let it defrost within the fridge in a single day. The frosting will return to its full gloriousness as soon as it’s absolutely defrosted.

Extra Chocolate Avocado Recipes

I like making chocolate desserts with avocado. Listed below are a number of recipes that it’s essential to attempt:

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First revealed in June 2019. Republished with extra particulars and pictures in August 2023.