Can you bake a flourless cake? Sometimes you may have an overwhelming desire to bake a cake, but you realize you don’t have any flour in the pantry. We’re not talking about making a flourless cake already in itself such as a cheesecake or tiramisu, nor do we want to replace wheat flour with other flours such as rice or almond flour. There are no substitute ingredients in the pantry, but we still want to prepare a real cake without using flour and we want it to be delicious. How do you do it? The answer lies in the miraculous chocolate recipe which is also astonishingly very easy to prepare.
Flourless chocolate cake: seriously sinful!
This flour and yeast free cake, also ideal for celiac disease, is more compact but retains a moist texture and really intense chocolate flavor. Better still… it’s super chocolaty.
Flourless cake ingredients
12 oz dark chocolate, 7 oz sugar, 5 oz butter, 5 oz bitter cocoa, 3 eggs, Salt q.b.
To prepare flourless chocolate cake, chop the dark chocolate and melt it together with the butter, preferably in a bain-marie or with the help of a microwave. Let it cool slightly. Work the sugar with the eggs until they are well blended and then add the bitter cocoa and a pinch of salt. At this point, add the melted chocolate and stir until the mixture is smooth. Pour the mixture into a buttered cake tin, distributing it evenly. Bake in a static preheated oven at 350° for about 30 minutes. When you notice the formation of a crust and small cracks on the surface, it’s time to take it out. The toothpick test is different from usual with this cake in that the inside mustn’t be dry but still soft and almost creamy.
Let the cake cool down and serve it however you prefer… although it’s already sinful enough pleasure to be more daring you can sprinkle with icing sugar or accompany it with custard, a scoop of ice cream or a caramel sauce. This recipe can be easily enriched with your preferred the aromas too: citrus fruit peel, such as orange or lemon, cinnamon, vanilla or even chili pepper. All excellent combinations to further flavor your flourless cake.
Flourless cake – alternative solution
An interesting solution to replacing flour is to use almonds. If you have the almonds already peeled just blend them with a food processor or blender. It’s vital you add a few almonds at a time and blend at intervals of a few seconds to avoid heating them too much and preventing the release of their oils (to ensure that this does not happen, first let the almonds cool in the freezer for a few hours). Blend until you get a really fine, homogeneous flour. If you don't have the almonds already peeled, blanch them for a few minutes in hot water, drain them, peel them and dry them thoroughly. You use the oven at very low power to help this process but be careful not to toast them: you just have to make sure they are properly dry.
This technique is perfect for preparing tasty cakes without flour, ideal for those who love the taste of almonds. Know any other brilliant combinations? Try it with recipes like carrot or apple pie.