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black bean chocolate cake with dairy free chocolate frosting
4.89 from 9 votes
Servings: 12

Chocolate Black Bean Cake

By Heather
You won’t believe this black bean chocolate cake is flourless! Gluten-free, blended in minutes, and made with simple pantry ingredients for a rich, fudgy chocolate dessert that's naturally higher in protein and fiber.
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 25 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
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Ingredients 

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Oil two round 6″ cake pans, and line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
  • To a high speed blender, place beans, eggs, maple syrup, coconut oil, vanilla extract, cocoa powder, baking powder, and sea salt.  Blend fully until smooth.  Scrape down the sides of the blender if any cocoa powder is stuck. Add the chocolate chips and pulse a couple of times.
  • Pour bean batter evenly into the prepared cake pans.
  • Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the cake batter is set and no longer jiggles. You can test doneness with a toothpick by inserting it into the center of the cake. It should come out dry or with a dry crumb.
  • Cool on a wire rack, then frost with healthy 3 ingredient chocolate frosting. Add chopped almonds, strawberries or fresh fruit if you’d like!  It goes great with ice cream!

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Nutrition

Calories: 138kcal, Carbohydrates: 18g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 4g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 55mg, Sodium: 112mg, Potassium: 193mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 10g, Vitamin A: 81IU, Vitamin C: 0.02mg, Calcium: 66mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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