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Keto Chocolate Cake German Chocolate Style (Low Carb, Gluten Free)

Keto Chocolate Cake German Chocolate Style (Low Carb, Gluten Free)
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Keto chocolate cake taken another level with the addition of toasted coconut. Keto german chocolate cake is sugar-free and gluten-free as well. Taste for taste an ultimate copycat recipe!

Keto chocolate cake

Keto chocolate cake is great but what about a keto german chocolate cake?

Of my favorite three cakes german chocolate is one. So this one was near and dear to me to get correct. Everything had to be just perfect for my approval. And I hit every mark!

The toasted coconut topping was my biggest worry. Would I be able to get it sweet enough. Although I did miss the mark for an extreme sweetness I feel that was best.

The sweeter things are the more neutral you become to the more subtle ones. Yet, we won’t talk about sugars effect on this post.

How to make keto chocolate cake

In order to make this german chocolate cake you need a few ingredients. Cocoa/cacao butter and melted chocolate. Preferably 100% chocolate would be the best. What this does is add the missing fat back into the chocolate enhancing the overall flavor.

Almond flour and coconut flour are then mixed. This is the ultimate combination along with sweetener for texture. The crumb is not too tight and extremely moist. Not so moist there is no texture where it melts in your mouth. This isn’t as pleasant as it sound as in dealing with chocolate.

You then add in your granulated sweetener. I use plain erythritol and Lakanto’s which is a monk fruit and erythritol mix. Add in salt and baking soda. Give the flours a good mix and proceed to wet ingredients.

Remember the chocolate and cocoa butter mentioned earlier? Well those were melted along with butter so they should be cooled now. I personally like to mix my chocolate in last from my other wet ingredients. Mix heavy cream, three eggs, liquid stevia and lemon juice or apple cider vinegar. The acidity in lemon juice or the apple cider vinegar will give the baking soda what it needs for the rise in the cake.

Blend the wet portion excluding the chocolate with your dry ingredients. After that’s blended add in the chocolate and mix.

Place in a 9 inch greased baking dish at 300ºF for 25-35 minutes. Low and slow is the path with gluten-free flours.

Keto chocolate cake full with toasted coconut and two plates with forks

Keto german chocolate cake helpful tips:

When making the creamy, sweet topping that’s traditionally brown sugar and milk I felt would be challenging. It’s amazing what can be done with heavy cream, sweetener and blackstrap molasses.

Yes, you read that correctly. Molasses is 13g per tablespoon. For the entire top I only use half. Not to mention its blackstrap which has a host of benefits that come with it. Even so with such a small amount you won’t get but so many of the nutritional benefits as well.

It requires you to heat it to melt the eggs in the custard. If you taste it while still warm it will appear very sweet. Don’t be alarmed because sweetness is heightened with heat. As it cools the sweetness will lower as well as the combining the custard with the keto chocolate cake. Once you place the two together at a cool temperature the sweetness of the custard isn’t very noticeable. Yet all the flavor will be there that you recognize.

Keto chocolate cake with chocolate syrup

Helpful recipe tips:

  • Using golden erythritol and blackstrap molasses has produced the best brown sugar substitute I have seen. You can switch out the molasses with a sugar-free maple syrup but taste will change. I wouldn’t recommend not using either.
  • The custard will be very thin even after the eggs have cooked. Allow it to cool completely before adding to the top of cake. I placed in refrigerator to speed up the process.
  • Toast coconut or not to toast it? That is entirely up to you. Toasted coconut will yield a better flavor. My first time around I didn’t and still loved the recipe amongst others. For directions on how to toast coconut see below in the recipe tips and in passage.
  • Add a chocolate syrup such as Hersey’s or Choczero “sugarlesscrystals” 10% off promo code.

Keto chocolate cake

How to toast coconut:

Toasting coconut is traditional for a keto german chocolate cake. I didn’t in the pictures clearly but if you want the extra flavor I definitely say go for it! It will add to cook time but I say it’s worth it in the end for authenticity.

In a sheet pan spread the coconut out in a very thin even layer. Some will overlap you can’t help that. On a low heat such as 250-300 F, 250 I would say would be better toast the coconut. About every 10 to 15 minutes give the coconut a stir around in the pan until you start to see browning. Now browning is very important because once it browns it will burn quickly. Once you see browning check every 3-5 minutes until you have your desired golden look.

The idea of the low and slow cook is similar to onions. You want to give the natural sugars a chance to caramelize.

Keto chocolate cake with chocolate syrup

Keto Chocolate Cake German Chocolate Style (Low Carb, Gluten Free)

Keto chocolate cake taken another level with the addition of toasted coconut. Keto german chocolate cake is sugar free and gluten free as well. Taste for taste a ultimate copycat recipe!
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 55 mins
Servings 8 slices

Ingredients
 

keto chocolate cake

  • 1 3/4 cup blanched almond flour
  • 3 tablespoon Coconut flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sweetener
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 2 ounces 100% chocolate (or chocolate of choice)
  • 26 grams cocoa/cacao butter
  • 3 tablespoon butter
  • 3 tablespoon Heavy cream
  • 3 large Eggs
  • 2 teaspoon liquid stevia or liquid monk fruit
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice or apple cider vinegar

coconut custard topping

  • 1/2 cup Heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoon butter
  • 3 tablespoon golden monk fruit (or sweetener of choice)
  • 1 teaspoon Liquid stevia
  • 1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses (or 1//2 TB of sugar free maple syrup)
  • 2 large egg yolk
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

Instructions
 

keto chocolate cake

  • Preheat oven at 300ºF
  • Melt chocolate, cocoa/cacao butter and butter together and set aside to cool
  • Combine almond flour, coconut flour, granulated sweetner, salt and baking soda
  • Combine heavy cream, eggs, stevia and lemon juice or apple cider vinegar and mix with dry ingredients. After mixing add in cooled chocolate
  • Bake at 300ºF for 25-35 minutes checking at 15-20 minutes for doneness using toothpick in center to make sure it comes out clean

coconut custard

  • In a small pot on low heat add in heavy cream, butter, and two egg yolks. Continue stirring and turn up heat slowly to medium low, still stirring add in sweetener, liquid stevia, blackstrap molasses or sugar free maple syrup. Continue mixing for another 10 minutes until it thickens
  • Note, after it is finished it will be a thick texture but it won't be custard like allow to cool or place in refridgerator for quicker cooling. Custard will be thick enough to spread when it is fully cooled.
  • Mix in coconut before spreading

Notes

Toasted coconut instructions:

In a sheet pan spread the coconut out in a very thin even layer. Some will overlap you can't help that. On a low heat such as 250-300 F, 250 I would say would be better toast the coconut. About every 10 to 15 minutes give the coconut a stir around in the pan until you start to see browning. Now browning is very important because once it browns it will burn quickly. Once you see browning check every 3-5 minutes until you have your desired golden look.
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Written by Darius Pittman in March 9, 2019 / 5112 Wiews
Tags | coconut, german chocolate cake, gluten free cake, keto, keto cake, keto chocolate cake, low carb, sugar free
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Hi, I'm Darius. I am aware that I'm rather young but I started caring about my health years ago. I think it's truly important because at a young age I knew the food they were feeding us was complete b.s, can I curse up here?

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  • Nancy in Alberta June 30, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Wow! So happy to find this, Darius. Thank you for developing this recipe.
    P.S. BS is just barnyard language. If your mum doesn’t care, hey, it’s your blog!

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