This past weekend’s mission was to test run a chocolate cake for P’s first birthday.
Mission: accomplished. 🙂
Like, SO accomplished. I was beside myself with pride when it turned out. Now I can serve a cake for everyone to enjoy that will make my son feel normal!!! Hooray!
It is chocolaty and rich and tastes indulgent, despite having no added sugar. It’s also free of grains. And nuts, seeds, soy, wheat, and dairy. And it actually tastes good. Scratch that. It tastes great.
Grain free, allergy-friendly chocolate cake [wheat/gluten free, grain free, nut free, dairy free, soy free*]
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup enjoy life chocolate chips*
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1 banana
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp coconut flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil together until smooth. Add vanilla.
Combine eggs and banana and blend with an immersion blender or in a standing blender until frothy.
Add chocolate to whipped egg/banana mixture (starting with a little bit at first so the warm chocolate doesn’t cook the eggs). Stir until combined.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones. Again, stir until combined.
Let sit for a few minutes to thicken.
Meanwhile grease a cake pan with coconut oil.
Pour batter into cake pan. Bake for 20 minutes (or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean).
[optional] Chocolate frosting [vegan, dairy free, nut free, soy free, wheat/gluten free]
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips*
- 1 can coconut milk
- [optional] pinch of salt
Directions:
Chill your can of coconut milk overnight and upon opening it, scoop the solid layer on top into a mixing bowl. This (cream) is the portion you will use (but feel free to save the liquid portion for another use).
Combine coconut cream and melted chocolate chips and whip until smooth and thick and delicious.
Let both the cake and the frosting cool to room temperature before icing.
*Make sure you check the ingredients of the chocolate chips you use. Enjoy Life brand is definitely allergy friendly (as noted by the dairy, nut & soy free label), but various brands of dark chocolate chips may be suitable as well. Soy lecithin is often safe for those with a soy allergy, but please check with your MD or allergist first.
YUM!
Happy 1st birthday little boy. I am so happy to be your mama.
Happy birthday!
FYI this isn’t vegan, it contains eggs.
Whoops, just saw the frosting was labelled as vegan, not the cake. My mistake!
yum!! chocolate cake, with no worries– too good!
mmm nothing beats chocolate cake
yessss yum! thank you for this!
Oh So So SWEET!!!! Happy Birthday P!!! 🙂 Enjoy your day! Sending lots of Birthday hugs your way from Drake & I 😉
Happy 1st Birthday P! He is just so cuuuute! And, Elise, for as much of a self-proclaimed type-A person that you are, you sure are putting on a good face for us blog readers. You seem to go with the flow so easily. I’m jealous of that. Sometimes I think having a kid is the ONLY way I will be able to go with the flow of life. You are doing such a good job as a mom and it’s good inspiration 🙂
Yum! Well done, the cake looks amazing!
Oh my God he’s already 1 year old!!!!
Hi Elise!
I recently saw that someone commented on not being able to view an entire post. This has been happening to me also. I can only see a few sentences. It’t not really a big deal, because I just hop over to your website, but I figured I’d let you know.
Thanks for all your posts! I truly enjoy reading (and have for about 3 years now)!
Maybe you could substitute the egg in the cake with a flax or chia egg?
Thanks for posting the recipe Elise!! I’m gluten and dairy intolerant and also want to avoid sugar so this cake looks amazing!
I’d like to re-enact that scene from Matilda with this cake definitely.
This is also happening to me in Feedly but I just click on the “View website” option below and it opens the web page (but still technically in Feedly). I’m guessing you’re not using Feedly, but Elise, just so you know this changed.
I will 100% percent be making this soon. Looks so freakin’ good.
Looks delish. For those whom are allergic to chocolate (sad I know), what other varieties/flavors could be substituted do u think? How would the recipe change? I have to follow a low oxalate diet and chocolate is high oxalate. 🙁
Great job!
hmmmmm…ill have to think about that…maybe something like sunflower seed butter?
thanks angie. i changed some stuff around with wordpress so that must be it. I’m still trying to make some changes to my format, but in the meantime thanks for clicking over 🙂
hahahahah
awesome shirley! enjoy 🙂
thanks for letting me know yalanda – i have been doing some tweaking on wordpress so thats probably what happened. still making changes, so thanks for clicking over 🙂
right??!?!?! ahhhhhh…how did this happen!?
awww…thank you so much brooke. you can ask my family. I’m sure that they’ll back the type a personality, but i do work very hard to be less rigid and more flexible on a daily basis. you’re right though – having a kid is pretty much a sure fire way to force the change 🙂
thanks katie 🙂
Happy birthday baby P! Seems crazy that he is already 1 year old and my baby already 13 months today 🙂 Hope you have an awesome day. Hug and kiss from a land far far away 😉
Happy Birthday P!!!!! I can’t believe a year has gone by. Elise OMG the cake looks soooo amazing!!! You are an outstanding Mom!!! : )
Happy Birthday to Patrick, hope to see some photos of him digging into the cake 🙂 I am going to attempt to make this into cupcakes tonight, do you think besides the bake time there would be any necessary changes?
I don’t think so. Let me know how they turn out!
I WILL MAKE THIS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY !!!!!!!!!
yes! do it <3
The cupcakes turned out great, SO tasty! Thanks again for sharing. I think the bake time was about the same, possibly an additional 2-3 minutes and it made 12 perfect sized cupcakes.
Did you learn your culinary knowledge just from experimenting and reading? It’s amazing and I am so thankful for it 🙂
my mom taught me all the basics growing up otherwise its all just trial and error. I’m so happy they turned out for you! maybe ill try them as cupcakes next too!
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