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This almond flour chocolate cake is the best easy keto chocolate cake for birthday parties! You’ll love its moist texture and sweet chocolate almond butter frosting!
Keto chocolate cakes are the essential ingredient that makes living on a keto diet easier. Everyone loves chocolate, but most cake recipes are so full of sugar that low-carbers need to stay way clear of them. This recipe solves that problem, with a keto-friendly cake you can treat yourself without having to worry about your macros!
There are a few tricks to making a keto version of a chocolate cake.
Now let’s get into this specific recipe. This Almond Flour Chocolate Cake is an easy, gluten-free chocolate cake made of 9 simple keto ingredients, which means it’s not only keto-friendly but it’s also a diabetic-friendly chocolate cake!
The basic ingredients to make this easy moist chocolate cake are:
The key to creating a moist cake is to bake it at low temperature – 160C (325F) is the best – and on conventional mode. Also, I always recommend checking the baking quite often during the last 10 minutes.
You should remove the cake from the oven when a pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean but slightly moist and wet. This means that some moisture is still in the center to ensure the best texture.
Finally. always beat all the liquid ingredients on high speed with an electric mixer before incorporating it into the dry ingredients. Therefore, the cake is less dense and fluffier.
This is the best part of this almond flour chocolate cake. You will love the combination of creamy chocolate, almond buttercream, and moist keto chocolate cake. Of course, you can replace almond butter with peanut butter if desired but it will raise the carbs slightly! Read more about my chocolate almond butter frosting recipe here.
If you want to create a 2-layer keto chocolate cake as you see in my pictures, you will have to bake this recipe twice, one per layer. Also, make sure you bake each layer one at a time in your oven. You can actually bake the layers 24 to 48 hours before assembling your cake. In order to keep your layers moist, you can store them in a cake box or on a plate in the fridge wrapped with a piece of wrap.
First, make sure the cake layers are cold, at room temperature. This might mean you have to cool them for at least 3 hours or overnight before adding any frosting if you didn’t do them ahead of time. Then, I recommend using a turning table.
Place the first cake layer on the turning table, add 1/3 of the frosting in the middle of the cake, and using a spatula spread the frosting, from the middle to the side, while you turn the table at the same time.
Next, add the second cake layer and 1/3 of the frosting.
Proceed as before to spread the frosting all over the cake. Obviously, some of the frostings is going to leak out on the side of the cake but that’s ok. Spread the rest of the frosting on the side and keep turning the table while applying medium pressure with your spatula on the side of the cake.
Yes, you can store this chocolate cake in the fridge for up to 4 days. Always make sure the cake is in an airtight container or in a cake box to keep it moist and fresh.
If you’ve liked this recipe, you will love my other cake recipes
Don’t forget to share a picture of your cake with me on Instagram if you give this a try! I love to look at your creations.
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Hi Carine, since I moved from a 9inch pan to 7inch and I made the cake it did not come out fully made because it had a depressed dunk in look after the baking from the middle and that is fine because It does happen in Keto baking sometimes, when I cut the cake from inside it was undone. What would you suggest to increase the timing as well as temperature. With 9inch pan it comes out perfect but I wanted to change the pan due to toxicity issues. Could you recommend something when we tend to change sizes of cake pans. Thanks a ton
Well, pricking the center of the cake with a skewer to check if its bake before taking it out of the oven is always great. Increase baking time by 10 minutes burst, prick and keep baking if it stick to the skewer. I would probably increase by 20 minutes to reach the same texture in such small pan. ENjoy!
Hey Carine , love all your recipes ???? I want to bake a keto cake which is eggless . It will really helpful if u can help with that !
Thanks
I didn’t had success making an egg-free keto cake yet I am sorry. Since keto flours has no starch, cakes doesn’t hold their shape without eggs. Enjoy the recipes on the blog, XOXO Carine
Hey Carine,
I was wondering if I could substitute erythritol with low calorie stevia blend?
No sorry, you can’t substitute crystal sugar free sweetener for stevia powder in cakes or cookies since stevia don’t melt and don’t add texture. Use my sweetener converter to help you swap one brand to another brand of keto sweetener. Enjoy, XOXO Carine
I love your cake recipes! This is my second time baking this cake and it’s delicious!! It hits the spot when I’m craving double chocolate cake. The first time I did a layer cake with peanut butter frosting in the middle and chocolate frosting on top. This time I was running low on cocoa powder so I subbed in peanut butter powder for the second cake. It turned out even better than expected. Moist, fluffy, chocolate-y, peanut butter cake! Thanks so much!
Thanks for the amazing feedback! Nothing can beat chocolate and peanut butter ! Take care. XOXO Carine
I am just learning to bake so my treats haven’t been the best. I follow this recipe and my cake was dry and not moist. other than that, it was deli! I am wondering how much does the temperature and ingredient consistency in each step counts towards the moist of a cake? Does this make sense?
Keto baking is high fiber baking, it means that the ingredients soak the liquid really fast ending in a dry cake if you add a little bit too much of it. It is very important to measure the flour precisely, packed, levelled up cups and to use ultra fine blanched almond flour (not coarse almond meal). Also, as any cake always check the baking inserting a pick in the center of the cake after 20 minutes. The pick should be clean but moist this means the cake is cooked but still retains moisture. I hope this will help you for next time. Thank you again for trying my recipes ! Enjoy the recipes on the blog, XOXO Carine
Hi, is there any way i can sub the almond butter?
Sure, you can replace almond butter by any nut or seed butter like cashew butter, sunflower seed butter, peanut butter.
Hi! What if I want to keep it just regular butter, or ghee? Is it possible? Can I use the quantity of butter mentioned + quantity of almond butter mentioned = total ghee? Thank you!
Yes sure, you can simply use soft butter in the frosting. This will work just fine as well. Enjoy the cake, XOXO Carine.
Hi Carine, can I use coconut flour instead of almond flour and if yes what would be the grams required? Thanks
Unfortunaly you can’t simply becaus ecoconut flour contains 4 times more fibe than almond and it soak liquid very much. You can’t replace those flour with a 1! ratio. However I have 100 % coconut flou chocolate cake recipe for you here. Give it a go! It works well for layer cakes too, Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
you have a recipe book with this chocolate cake almond butter frosting in it i would like to have a cook book delivered to me
I dont’ have a recipe book yet, I am sorry. But you can access all my recipes here on the blog for free. Have a lovely time, XOXO Carine
Can I use milk as a substitute for almond milk? Thank you.
Sure! It will work as well. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
What did you use as a chocolate drizzle?
Any chocolate with more than 85% cocoa are keto friendly. I like to use either lindt 90% or sugar free chocolate sweetened with stevia from Lilys sweet chocolate. Enoy the recipe. XOXO Carine.