Flourless(and fructose free) Chocolate Mud Cake with Fudgey Icing

I have been doing alot of baking recently. I think the cold weather makes me want to have the oven on all day just to keep warm, so I end up baking, which I am not complaining about! I made this cake to take to my mums house one night. She can't eat gluten or fructose, so I came up with this chocolate mud cake. It was delicious, I will be making this for everyone, not just gluten and fructose free peeps. I was very happy that it worked, despite not having flour, and it was lovely and sweet, just by using rice malt syrup. My sister in law came round and had two slices, so it must have been a hit! Try this, even if you love (and can eat) gluten and fructose, as it really is yummy!

 

 

 



You will need:

CAKE

75 gm coconut oil or butter, melted

250 ml rice malt syrup

200 ml strong black coffee

2 eggs

40 gm cocoa powder

200 gm almond meal

1 tsp bicarb soda

ICING

50 gm butter or coconut oil

50 gm rice malt syrup or to taste

heaped tablespoon cocoa powder

pinch of salt

 

Preheat oven to 180C and grease/line a cake tin. Melt the butter/coconut oil and mix well with all the other ingredients in a large bowl. Pour into the yin and bake for 45 min or until a skewer comes out clean.

While your cake is baking, make your fudgey icing. 

Melt the coconut oil/butter over a gentle heat with the rice malt syrup. Add the cocoa powder and salt, and stir until smooth and glossy. Taste it and add more suagr/cocoa/salt until you are happy. Set this aside to let it thicken. You can put it in the fridge, but watch it doesn't harden to much that its not spreadable.

After appro 45 min of cake baking, remove fro oven. Your cake may sink a little but don't panic! Let cool on a wire rack. Once cool, spread the icing over it!

 

 

 

 

Im starting to really enjoy baking with nut meals and rice malt syrup. The taste is pretty much eactly the same as normal, but not a sickly sweet, which is a good thing! I'm all for changing my baking to make it better for me!

 

 

 

 

If you make this, let me know! If you have any gluten/fructose free recipes to share, please do!

 

Thanks for reading, and see you soon. Ive been doing a little makeover in my bedroom and making things for my etsy shop!! Will show you soon!

 

Taz

P.S Thanks to my mum and sister for their pretty cupcake plates and flowers for my photos!