Sugar Free Chocolate Christmas Cake
A festive no sugar added spiced chocolate cake that will knock your stockings off! Deliciously spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves, this cake is perfect for the holiday season.
Servings: 16
Calories: 319kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups ground almonds 200g. For super-fine almond flour, reduce by ¼ cup or 25 grams.
- 8.8 oz dark chocolate 250g, 90% cocoa solids
- ¾ cup butter 170g, unsalted
- ⅓ cup cream 80ml
- 8 Medjool dates 150g / 5.3oz, pitted
- 5 eggs
- ½ cup granulated sweetener 100g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
To decorate
- 6 cinnamon sticks
- 20 blanched almonds
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 160 Celsius / 320 Fahrenheit (electric).
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a non-stick pan or in the microwave.
- Line the bottom of a 25 cm diameter round springform cake tin with baking paper and grease the sides with butter.
- Remove the stones from the dates and chop finely.
- Separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Mix the egg yolks and sweetener. Then add the rest of the wet ingredients - heavy cream, dates and the butter / chocolate mixture.
- Stir together the almond flour, baking powder and spices. Ad to the wet ingredients and mix until you have a smooth dough.
- Gently fold in the egg whites.
- Pour into your springform, decorate with cinnamon sticks and almonds and bake around 40 minutes until the cake is cooked but still a little gooey in the centre.
- Remove from the oven and let the cake cool in the tin.
Notes
10.4g net carbs per slice. Makes 16 slices.
I am using ½ date per slice (8 dates in total).
If you wish, you can replace the dates with another 4 tablespoon of erythritol and reduce the amount of almond flour by ½ cup / 50g. This changes the net carb count to 3.5g and the sugar to 0.7g per slice.
You can add 1 tablespoon of orange peel and 1-2 tablespoon brandy to the cake batter to take the Christmas cake flavour to the next level.
Nutrition
Calories: 319kcal | Total Carbohydrates: 14.6g | Protein: 6.9g | Fat: 27.9g | Saturated Fat: 12.6g | Fiber: 4.2g | Sugar: 8g