Sometimes you just need a quick chocolate dessert [like this chocolate lava cake] that is as easy as it is delicious! Oh yeah, did I mention that this gluten free chocolate lava cake is also rich in magnesium, fat soluble vitamins, and protein?
No guilt here, just abundant nutrition 🙂 Plus, it has a warm gooey center makes it the perfect pair with ice cream!
Read on and whip up this recipe ASAP.
Chocolate Lava Cake (gluten free)
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons organic (or pastured) butter
- 4 tablespoons dark chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons organic sugar (like this) or coconut sugar (I blend my sugar in a Vitamix blender to make it super fine for dessert making)
- 3 tablespoons cacao powder (like this)
- 1 teaspoon coconut flour (like this)
- 2 organic egg whites (beaten with a stick blender till peaks form)
- 4 organic egg yolks
- ⅛ teaspoon rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar
- small pinch of salt
- Chocolate shavings (like this)
Instructions
- Over medium heat in a double boiler, combine chocolate chips, butter and sugar until melted. Stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl beat 2 egg whites using a stick blender to form stiff peaks.
- Add egg yolks and fold egg whites into chocolate mixture.
- Add cacao powder, coconut flour, salt and vinegar.
- Grease 2-3 small ramekins or short glass mason jars with butter and fill with chocolate batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 14-16 minutes until top is just barely set. Do not overcook, or you will lose the gooey center and have more of a dense brownie!
- Top with chocolate shavings and your favorite dairy or non-dairy ice cream and enjoy!
*If you have high copper levels you may want to reconsider your chocolate consumption.
What's your favorite chocolate lava cake recipe? Please share in the comments!
Thalia @ butter and brioche
My chocolate cravings have definitely kicked in.. looks delicious!
Sandy
This cake looks AWESOME!
However, using the dark choc. chips you have a link to is NOT gluten free--as they are made with malt barley.
Catherine
Thank you! My apologies, I selected the wrong link! It's fixed now.
Abundantly,
Catherine
Nicole
Do you have ideas on how to make this egg free? Would it work to use a substitute for those of us who are allergic to eggs?
Hilary
These are just delicious!
I had great success making them tonight for a small group. Worth noting that I made the batter ahead of time and refrigerated it in the jars for about 4 hrs, to save time. They still turned out beautifully but took nearly 20 min to cook.
Beth
omg I have Celiac Disease and this looks like an amazing treat:) Thanks so much for this recipe:)
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Anabel
OMG, it looks absolutely amazing, and delicious! Have to try to make it! Thank you for sharing <3
MedicineWoman
Oh my, can you imagine these medicated?
Jean
Oh yes!!!
Sara
I'm lactose intolerant, what can I replace the butter with?
Catherine
Butter contains so little lactose, it's typically not a problem for those who are lactose intolerant. It's usually a problem for those who have a casein allergy. Regardless, I bet ghee or coconut oil would work great.
karla jassoy
I just joined the coconut mama community and this is the very first recipe I tried , it looks amazing! Finally a healthy dessert
Charis
Could we substitute ACV for the rice wine vinegar?!
Frederick Pantin
I'm gonna try this recipe this week.