Flour-less Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Ingredients
  • 1½ cups skinless slivered almonds
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 8 ounces Enjoy Life Dairy Free semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 5 large eggs, separated
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • ½ teaspoon lemon zest
  • ½ cup coconut oil, room temperature and soft not melted
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • Fresh Strawberries
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease 10 inch diameter spring form pan.
  3. Combine almonds and ⅓ cup sugar in a food processor.
  4. Blend until almonds are very finely ground.
  5. Transfer almond mixture to medium bowl.
  6. Melt chocolate.
  7. Add ⅓ cup sugar and mix in coconut oil until completely melted.
  8. Add chocolate mixture to almond mixture.
  9. Using an electric mixer, beat egg yolks and remaining ⅓ cup sugar in large bowl until mixture falls in heavy ribbon when beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes.
  10. Beat in almond extract and lemon zest.
  11. Remove egg yolk mixture from mixer and gently fold into the chocolate-almond mixture adding it in 3 additions.
  12. Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites and salt in another large bowl until stiff, but not dry.
  13. Fold whites into chocolate batter in three additions. Be careful not to over mix.
  14. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
  15. Bake cake until toothpick inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 40 minutes.
  16. Cool cake completely in pan on rack.
  17. Cut around pan sides to loosen; release sides.
  18. Serve with fresh strawberries.
Recipe by Let's Be Yummy at http://letsbeyummy.com/2016/05/07/flour-less-chocolate-cake-recipe/