The Sunday Recipe: Chocolate Coconut Cake

May 16, 2021 at 6:00 am (Recipes)
Tags: cake, coconut, dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free

Chocolate Coconut Cake

Ingredients

• ¾ cup maple syrup
• ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons coconut flour (105 grams)
• 6 tablespoons or 30 grams cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s)
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• 2 large eggs (I used 1 jumbo and 1 small from our hens)
• ½ cup coconut milk (I used full fat but the fat had congealed and I didn’t blend it so it would be the equivalent of light, I imagine)
• ¼ cup coconut oil, in it’s liquid state
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup boiling coffee (Hot water works fine too.)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prep a 9 by 9 baking pan. (I prefer a glass dish.)
2. When working with coconut, it seems to be particularly important to make sure everything is warmed up to room temp. This is easy enough to do with the aid of a little tap water and the microwave. Put the eggs in hot tap water for just 10 minutes. Warm the coconut oil on 30% power for 2 minutes. If you keep your maple syrup in the fridge, as we do, you can also warm that on 30% power for 2 minutes.
3. Sift together the coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. Whisk the eggs in a bowl.
5. Beat in the coconut milk.
6. Mix in the maple syrup.
7. Mix in the coconut oil.
8. Add the vanilla extract.
9. Mix in the dry ingredients. (This will get very thick, very quickly.)
10. Stir in the hot coffee or water.
11. Pour into the prepared baking pan.
12. Bake for 30 minutes or until a sharp knife or tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
13. Cool and enjoy. (Some whipped coconut cream is perfect with this.)