We’ve long ago ditched the Betty Crocker boxed stuff, but I just hadn’t come up with a recipe that replaces that moist chocolate cake.
Many failed attempts later, this baby emerged! I whipped this up in no time for an after dinner treat and it was an instant hit! Deeply chocolaty and incredibly moist. Smothered in a super easy chocolate ganache and you will be in chocolate heaven. I mean – what woman doesn’t love chocolate, ya know antioxidants and all?
So if you have a chocolate lover in your house, this recipe is a must-try.
Real Food Chocolate Cake
2014-03-23 20:31:26
Ingredients
- 2 cups freshly milled soft white wheat
- 1 3/4 cups rapadura
- 1/2 cup raw cacao powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups strong brewed coffee
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/2 very ripe avocado
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp celtic sea salt
Ganache
- 1 1/2 cups organic fair trade chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tbs butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In small saucepan gently heat coffee, coconut oil and rapadura. Stir until smooth and all rapadura is dissolved. Mash in avocado.
- Into mixing bowl wisk flour, cocao powder, salt, baking soda and baking powder until there are no lumps.
- Slowly stir in coffee mixture into flour mixture until it is all combined. Add vanilla and egg. Mix for one minute.
- Pour into two greased 8in round pans or 8x8 squares. Bake for 35 min or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely on wire rack before topping with ganache.
Ganache
- Heat all ingredients in saucepan over low heat until combined. Cool for 5 min before frosting cake.
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Seems like a good looking cake. The recipe is easy enough to follow.. thanks for the share!
This looks so yummy. I am normally not a chocolate cake person, not ever enough chocolate, I’d rather have a brownie… but yours looks divine!
Very interesting recipe – not sure I’m familiar with all the ingredients. Either way – you had me at chocolate!
I’ve never been a fan of chocolate cake since it always tastes too dry. But your picture makes this look so freaking moist and yummy. I have yet to eat breakfast but I still want some.
It’s so easy to whip up! You should make one!
oh, this looks like a healthy version of the choc. cake i grew up w/…well, except ours was egg-free, but since i now live on an egg-laying farm, it should have eggs in, right? =) anyway, i had one question: i don’t use sprouted flour…usually whole wheat or spelt. do you have any suggestions for substituting?
Both would substitute in equal proportions. We use sprouted flour because its easier to digest; sprouting breaks down a portion of the starches in grains into simple sugars so your body can digest them more easily. It also increases the availability of Vitamins B and C, carotene and reduces anti-nutrients.
I LOVE this cake and have no guilt eating that second piece….or third lol Let me know how you liked it!
just one more quick question. i’m planning to serve this for company, & trying to prepare ahead, would you recommend freezing the cake & ganache, or just the cake & prepare the ganache closer to the time of serving? thanks!
Ok, I made another one last night and here’s what I did. I made the cake and let it cool. Popped it out of the pans and put them on top of each other and stuck it in the fridge. Today I took it out around 11 (a friend came over for lunch at noon) Made the ganache right after we ate lunch and served it warm. ( I put some in between the 2 layers and then all over the top.) The cake was still a little cool and it came out PERFECT! Hope this helps!!
sounds great. I love the addition of the coffee
It looks absolutely delicious! I try not to eat too much sugar, but everyone needs a reat now and then!
I love anything chocolate! I like this recipe because it uses raw chocolate (cacao). I would have to try making this on the weekend. The ingredients are not that difficult to find. Thanks for sharing!
Yummo! Sea Salt and Ganache! This sounds so delicious. My hubby is a huge fan of ganache.
Love ganache here too!
I was excited about this recipe until I saw coffee, love the smell don’t like the taste in anything. Followed you here from The HomeAcre Hop, pinning for future use even if I don’t care for coffee. Consider sharing on Real Food Fridays.
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It has NO trace of coffee taste at all! Coffee just enhances the chocolate flavor 🙂
i completely agree; i’m always amazed how bland non-coffee choc. cakes often taste!
Cake made with coffee? That’s brilliant! Thanks for sharing on Green Thumb Thursday.
Oh! This sounds divine! I MUST try this!!! 🙂
~ Christine