Description
Soft and fluffy paleo vanilla cake wrapped in dark chocolate, made healthier with less than a gram of sugar! Paleo, Grain-free, Gluten-free, Refined-sugar-free, Low-sugar, Dairy-free, Healthier.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp. almond flour
- 2 tbsp. tapioca flour
- 1/4 cup monk fruit sweetener
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup organic creamy sunbutter
Glaze:
- 1 4oz. bar 100% dark chocolate
- 2 tsp. coconut oil
(Optional, for garnish):
- unsweetened coconut flakes
- coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Lightly grease a silicone donut pan or 8″ cake tin with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, tapioca flour, monk fruit, baking powder, and salt. Whisk.
- Add in the melted coconut oil, eggs, almond milk, and vanilla. Beat with an electric hand mixer until a smooth batter forms- about 1 minute.
- Pour the batter evenly among 6 donut molds OR pour the batter into the 8″ cake tin. Bake for 25-28 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake/donuts. Let the cake cool.
- Using your hands, lightly crumble the cooled cake. Place the crumbled cake mixture into a mixing bowl.
- Add the creamy sunflower seed butter to the crumbled cake mixture. Mix well using either your hands or a spoon.
- With a cookie scooper, scoop out the cake/sunbutter mixture. Roll out each scoop lightly between the palms of your hands to smooth. Set the cake balls aside.
- Melt the dark chocolate and coconut oil in the microwave in 2 45-second intervals. Stir well between each interval to melt completely.
- Dip each cake ball into the melted chocolate glaze. Sprinkle with coconut flakes and coarse sea salt for garnish.
- Let the cake bites chill in the freezer for at least 15 minutes before serving to harden the chocolate glaze.
Notes
Any creamy nut or seed butter can be using in place of the Sunbutter. My favorite subs include almond butter, cashew butter, and peanut butter.
To make these cake bites into cake pops, insert a wooden cake pop stick into the center of each bite before the chocolate glaze hardens.
- Category: something sweet
- Method: bake
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cake bite
- Calories: 160
- Sugar: 1
- Fat: 14
- Carbohydrates: 6
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 5
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