Three Minute Chocolate Cake
Tried this yesterday and it was quick and quite good ... :thup:
1/4 cup almond flour ( I only had ground almonds, so used that) 1T Cocoa powder 1/4 t baking powder 4-5 packets Splenda 2T melted butter 1T water, or SF syrup ( I used DaVinci choc) 1 egg In a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup, mix all the dry ingredients. Mix the melted butter with the egg and the SF syrup ~ add to the dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Cover with plastic wrap ... make small slit in wrap, with a knife to vent. Microwave on high for about 1 minute, 10 sec. Adjust as needed for your micro. When it comes out it looks a bit wet, but drys as it cools. ( I do not have a two cup measure, so I pit it in two little glass bowls, and it worked fine) You can eat warm like a custard with whipped cream ( I added a few diced strawberries) or let it cool completely and frost with low carb icing of your choice. Hope I am not repeating something already posted, but I can't recall ever seeing it here. Hope you enjoy it. |
This sounds great! Thanks for posting it. :)
I put in my recipe software and here's the nutrition info it calculated: 473 Calories; 45g Fat (79.4% calories from fat); 16g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 249mg Cholesterol; 417mg Sodium. |
:yum: MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm....... Will try it tomorrow!!!!!
Thanks!!!! |
I just made this and it was pretty darn good, although I should have whipped some cream to go on top. I used ground almonds from the store, 4 packets of Splenda, and some marshmallow syrup instead of the water.
In fact, I just sent the recipe to my brother! |
Marshmallow syrup? Isn't that full of sugar? I've never heard of marshmallow syrup. Is that the same as Marshmallow cream?
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One T of natural peanut butter in the mix is a good variation as well.
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I made this to have with my morning coffee. What a nice change it was. Thank you very much for posting this. It will get alot of use in my home.
Angel |
It's a great cake! I like to use sour cream in place of some of the butter. It decreases the calorie count and gives the cake a more devil's food character. See:
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=153934 |
I made this tonight but used pecans instead of almonds - lower carb count!
Hubby and son and I all loved it and licked our bowls clean ;) I've been grinding up my own pecans but I think I'll buy some pecan flour as the home-ground method makes for a "grittier" texture, not fine like you'd purchase in flour form. I use pecans for anything calling for almonds...for 1cup, there are 4 carbs (+/-) compared to almond's 12 (+/-). That's a pretty big difference! :-) I'm going to try the other variations of this later next week. The vanilla and the pumpkin. Yummy! |
How do you know that pecan flour has only 4 carbs per cup? What resource did you find that told you that? I have Atkins carb count book, and it says that pecans have more carbs than almonds.... please let me know. Thanks!
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Hi :-)
Looking on the packages and in fitday. Subtracting the fiber you get the 4 carbs per cup. I buy 6 ounce (1.5 cups) packages (whole nuts) which have a total of 6 carbs for the whole package (24 carbs, 18 fiber). This yields 1.25 cups of "flour." So, in essence, I guess it's closer to 5 carbs, but still, less than almonds. Here's the exact info from fitday.com. Almonds, roasted: (unroasted is a difference of less than .5 carbs) 1 cup Total Carbohydrate 27.76g Dietary Fiber 16.49g (this is a net carb count of 11.27) Pecans 1 cup Total Carbohydrate 14.97g Dietary Fiber 10.37g (this is a net carb count of 4.6) I was looking for nuts in the store one day and looked at the info on ALL the nuts they had. Pecans were, by far, the lowest carbs. I detest nuts and especially tree nuts but you have to do what you have to do when you're LC'ing! lol. |
Wow. Thanks for the info! I just made my own pecan flour yesterday. I recently bought the Ultimate Chopper which ground them into a very fine powder. I tried making the cake with that instead and it was just as scrumptious!
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GeoUSA...... Thanks for that idea. I liked the added flavor the PB gave. Very good.
Angel |
Sounds mighty tasty, gotta try it! :)
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welp I tried it and it was really good. Thanks for the recipe.
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