We stay with great friends for a few days in early January each year, who live up in the Byron Hinterland in the town of Rosebank. It is just beautiful up there, with rolling green hills, tree-lined roads and friendly people. I always cook a couple of treats while we’re there for everyone, and one I did was a bit of an invention and similar to the Gooey chocolate pudding, but more of a cake that you can serve as a decadent morning tea or dessert with custard. We opted for the latter for the final night’s dessert and Griffin, their oldest, declared it “the best gluten-free dessert ever”. So there you have it, the first positive testimonial that hopefully makes it worth having a go!
It’s dense and fudgy so you can easily have this serve 10-11 people but if you’re cooking for many, double it and bake in a large baking tray for half the time, and cut 25 squares instead.
Enjoy and if you make it, do tag me on Instagram @lowtoxlife so that I can see your creations!
Here’s to real treats and less fake weirdness for 2018!
Real Treats. Happy Bodies. Connected Souls.
Chocolate Macadamia Fudge Cake
Ingredients
- 130 g salted butter, melted (use coconut oil or olive oil if wanting it to be dairy free)
- 100 g tapioca or arrowroot starch or 1 cup (watch out for sneaky 220 preservative in supermarket arrowroot!)
- 50 g coconut flour or 1/3 cup + 1 heaped tbsp
- 1 heaped tsp aluminium free baking powder
- 30 g desiccated coconut or 1/3 cup
- 30 g cocoa powder or 1/3 cup (I use dutch processed cocoa for baking)
- 100 g rapadura / panela sugar or 1/2 cup
- 50-100 ml maple syrup depends on sweetness level you want
- 3 whole eggs
- 100 g chopped 70% dark chocolate or dark choc chips
- 100 g rough chopped macadamias I like to keep in big chunks!
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 170C, fan forced or 180C/350F if not fan forced.
- Line a tart tin or round cake pan of around 20cm diameter with baking paper or rub melted butter all over it and then dust that buttered tin with flour for a natural non stick technique.
- Melt butter either in saucepan on low for a few minutes, or in your thermo-cooker for 2 mins, high temp, speed 1.
- If using a thermo-cooker, add all ingredients leaving eggs to last and except choc chips and macadamias, and blend on speed 5, 5 seconds, then reverse speed 5 another 5 seconds. Then pour choc chips and macadamia nuts in and stir by hand to combine at the end. You can also follow this method if using a food processor or blender, by adding melted butter first, then following the rest and simply blending on high, scraping down after five seconds, then blending again for another five seconds, mixing the choc chips and macadamia chunks in at the end by hand.
- If mixing by hand, leave melted butter to the side in the pan for a minute.
- Whisk eggs and syrup / sugar together in a large mixing bowl
- Add flours (sifted if they're lumpy!), baking powder, desiccated coconut, cocoa powder and finally the melted butter in, and mix by hand until lumps removed and a lovely, thick consistency.
- Once your batter is ready, how ever you got to this point, pour and scrap into the baking tin, and pop in the oven
- Check the cake at 25mins. If it's still a very wet skewer after 25 mins, bake another few minutes, otherwise pull it out - You want the edges a little bit bouncy to the touch but the middle a bit softer for your fudgy vibes.
- You're done. All that's left now is to gather your favourite people around a table with a cup o tea, to share it together.
Comments 20
I made this today but doubled the recipe to fill a large baking tray. Came out beautifully and very delicious. I needed some more gluten free chocolate recipes in my repertoire (as you can never have too many chocolate ones) so thank you!
Author
So glad you love it, Fiona! Ten points for being first cab off the rank in making it x
Hi Alexx, I don’t quite understand the substitutions, eg. 30 g desiccated coconut or 1/3 cup
Author
Hey there, it’s just for people who are weighing things on a scale verses people who are using a cup measure – Just go by whichever method you measure your ingredients with.
Hey Darl, making a trial one today for Zara’s party on Sat…. xxx
Author
How did it go? x
Are these suitable to freeze?
I just found my new favourite gluten free cake,served with whipped cream. Delicious. Thanks for a great recipe.
Author
Oh yay. So glad you like it Karen x
I made finally this today and it is delicious. Perfectly sweet and simple, it was the nicest fudgy cake I’ve had.
Author
I’m so glad you loved it Erin – Nicest fudgy cake ever is a BIG compliment. Thx x
Hi Alexx, going to make this for my birthday this week (to bring to work) – thinking of adding your healthy icing – too much??
Author
Never too much Shelley – Sorry I missed your comment when you originally asked x
Any option for swapping out coconuts?
Made this today for a party. Was so tasty and so easy to make. Loved it. Was even asked for the recipe.
Author
So glad you loved it – and sorry I didn’t see your comment last year Joseph.
Could you use coconut sugar instead or rapadura sugar? Would that work? And leave out choc chips? Thanks!
Author
Hey Nikki, yep both would be fine. Enjoy 🙂
Made this today for a birthday. Sprinkled top with a tiny bit of icing sugar and placed some strawberries on top. Was so delicious, simple to make. Thanks Alexx , I’ll be making it again for sure
Author
Yum! So glad you enjoyed it 🙂 x