Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
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Swooning over this Easy Keto Chocolate Cake recipe! So chocolatey, so rich and YES, it’s even KETO! Who else want a slice of Keto chocolate cake with a Keto chocolate cream cheese frosting without all the guilt afterwards? Only 5 carbs!
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Indulge in Keto-Friendly Desserts
Who doesn’t love the classic combination of chocolate and cake? With the keto diet becoming increasingly popular, those looking to follow a low-carb lifestyle may have given up their dreams of sweet treats.
Fortunately, a solution is here: Keto Chocolate cake! Rich, indulgent and surprisingly low in carbohydrates, making this cake may sound daunting, but it is easier than it appears. With a few simple swaps in the ingredients, you can enjoy a delicious and guilt-free dessert.
But first, a little background on keto dieting and desserts.
Why Desserts Are Important to Keto
The whole point of keto dieting is to go sugar-free and rely on fats and proteins for nutrition. So why would you need desserts when on keto?
- Keto is meant to be a sustainable lifestyle choice to keep you healthy and eating a balanced meal. That includes desserts!
- Keto and other sustainable diets are not about demonizing desserts. Instead, they are all about enjoying your foods and finding sustainable ways of preparing and eating desserts to keep up with your goals.
- Choosing between a chocolate cake and a keto chocolate cake is better than choosing between cake and nothing. It will help you keep a positive mindset, and your diet will be sustainable and enjoyable instead of upright torture.
- This Keto chocolate cake is different in that it has no sugar, grains, grain-based flour, or whole sweeteners. And how are they still delicious? They use powdered sweeteners to improve the flavor. Some bakers use a combination of sweeteners to improve the taste significantly.
Benefits of Keto Desserts
- Keto desserts have multiple benefits: Improved gut health, healthier blood sugar levels, good hormonal support, stay fuller for longer, adequate body nutrition and reduced Inflammation.
Ingredients You Need for Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
Easy Keto Chocolate Cake Recipe
- eggs
- unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- Lakanto Classic Sugar
- vanilla extract
- almond flour
- unsweetened dutch-processed cocoa powder
- salt
- baking soda
Keto Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting – For thinner layer, halve recipe
- cream cheese, softened – To soften cream cheese, put in microwave for 20 seconds. It works great!
- butter, melted and cooled
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- vanilla extract
- Lakanto Powdered Sugar, use more if needed or if you want it sweeter
- salt
Instructions How to Make Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
Easy Keto Chocolate Cake Recipe
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease an 8×8 baking dish with butter or line with parchment paper and spray with non-stick spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract until well combined.
- Gradually whisk in the almond flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda and mix together well so everything is combined without over-mixing. (This is a thick batter.)
- Pour cake batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top with a spatula. Bake until the center is set and a toothpick inserted in it comes out clean, 20 – 25 minutes.
- Let cake cool in the pan completely before frosting.
Keto Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- Using a hand mixer, whip all the frosting ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Modify as needed.
- Frost and serve. Garnish with some sugar-free chocolate chips if you like!
More Variations for Your Low Carb Cake Recipe!
- More Chocolate Flavor: Try adding some espresso powder into your chocolate cake batter! Super yum!
- Frosting Options: Top with a Keto chocolate ganache or a any flavor of Keto buttercream frosting or even a keto whipping cream you like!
- Fruit & Chocolate Combo: Add some fresh strawberries or raspberries on top for that fruity chocolate sensation!
Storing Low Carb Chocolate Cake
- Keep cake stored in the fridge completely covered, but remove and allow to come to room temperature before serving!
About Lakanto and Why I Love Using It!
To find a good sugar-free, healthy sugar for baking and no baking, I’ve found it’s harder to find desserts that actually taste good when you make them healthier, especially when you are making desserts sugar-free and low-carb. But I found something that works for us and it’s amazing! Lakanto!
- I love using Lakanto and lucky for me, they noticed my instagram and sent me a whole bunch of their awesome products! Happiness!
- This Easy Keto Cake recipe uses the Lakanto Classic White and the Lakanto Powdered Sugar. If you’re not familiar with Lakanto, it is an all natural monk fruit sweetener that is both a superfood and a sugar substitute that tastes like real sugar! Thank you!
- Lakanto has the perfect mix of monk fruit extract and erythritol with no fiber, no maltodextrin, and no artificial flavoring or sweeteners. The extract comes from Monk fruit, which is is a small, green gourd resembling a melon and it’s grown in Southeast Asia. The Buddhist monks were the first to use it in the 13th century, hence the name “Monk Fruit”. LOL…makes sense.
- Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener measures as a healthy cup-for-cup (1:1) alternative to ordinary baking and cooking ingredients, which I dearly love. I used the Lakanto Golden Lakanto in this Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake and these Cinnamon Apple Muffins. Lakanto even has chocolate chips, chocolate bars, maple syrup, all kinds of baking mixes and a lot more!
- Use my Lakanto Discount Code: thebakingchocolatess15 to get 15% off when you check out, because wanna share the love and who doesn’t love a discount?
- Whether you’re new to this type of lifestyle or been doing it for awhile and why not check out Lakanto? Works with ketogenic, diabetic, candida, paleo, vegan, low-carb, low-sugar, non-GMO, and all-natural diets, btw!
In conclusion, this keto chocolate cake recipe is a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth without sacrificing your keto lifestyle with lots of chocolate flavor. It’s easy to make, deliciously moist, and low in carbs. If you’re looking for more healthy cake options, check out this Healthy Cake Recipe and this Keto Birthday Cake Mug Cake!
So, let’s just eat chocolate cake that’s Keto already…especially this guilt-free delicious Easy Keto Chocolate Cake with Keto Chocolate Frosting! We know you’ll agree that it’s the best keto cake out there.
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Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
- 4 eggs large
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted and slightly cooled
- ½ cup Lakanto Classic Sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup almond flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Keto Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting - For thinner layer, halve recipe
- 8 oz cream cheese softened - use 6 oz if you don't want a less cream cheese flavor
- 2 tablespoons butter melted and cooled
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder use more or less depending on how chocolatey you want it
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 /2 cup Lakanto Classic Powdered Sugar use more if needed or if you want it sweeter
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
Easy Keto Chocolate Cake
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease an 8x8 baking dish with butter or line with parchment paper and spray with non-stick spray, .
- In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract until well combined.
- Gradually whisk in the almond flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda and mix together well so everything is combined without over-mixing. (This is a thick batter.)
- Pour cake batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top with a spatula. Bake until the center is set and a toothpick inserted in it comes out clean, 20 - 25 minutes.
- Let cake cool in the pan completely before frosting.
Keto Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- Using mixer, whip all the frosting ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Modify as needed.
- Frost and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe slightly modified @healthyrecipesblog
