This Sugar Free Flourless Chocolate Almond Torte is grain free and made with just 6 ingredients!
Just 6 ingredients! You read that right!
This cake is the cake of all cakes.
It's a perfect cake for when time is a bit rushed and you really want to make something special.
It's the perfect cake for any special occasion.
Perfect for the holidays, birthdays, or just some friends coming over for the weekend.
I made this cake and rocked my husband's world.
I've told you about him before.
He's a sugar loving, carb loving, meat and potatoes man. A man that although I've changed my lifestyle for over 12 years now and he eats everything I make, still loves his white sugar treats and carbs.
I can't change him or make him want to change to eat healthier. BUT he eats whatever I make and never complains and always tells me the honest truth.
Which is good of course. I want the truth, whether it's hard to hear or not.
But coming from someone who really hasn't changed his tastebuds to healthier cakes and such, well, there's a fine line to what HE might think is good and what I think is exceptional. Especially when it's grain free, sugar free and low carb, which is no easy task.
So he tried my cake.
And it rocked his world.
No after taste which he often notices in my baking with stevia and tells me so.
Nothing. No words. Nothing negative. Nothing. Which is good because often he eats one bite if he doesn't like it and that is the end.
He ate the whole piece and raved about it.
It's fudgey, almond-y and really dense.
So if you're not into dense and fudgey, don't make it.
But if you are.......
Please go and rock that certain someone in your life who is the skeptical party pooper when it comes to healthy desserts and then come back and tell me all about it.
Brenda's Notes:
- The topping is optional because this would be perfectly fabulous without the almond butter whipped cream on top. Just use some sugar free whipped cream if you like and you're done. Nutrition info is not including topping.
- You don't need chocolate stevia, but it is a good one to have on hand. Clear liquid stevia or even vanilla will work too. If you don't have liquid stevia, only powdered, here's my conversion chart.
- If you don't have Swerve and use another sugar free substitute, please remove the stevia. Swerve is not as sweet as other sugar free granulated sweeteners.
- I had left over cake with the topping on it. So I refrigerated it and when I went for a piece the next day it was too cold and thick. I reheated it in the microwave for 20 seconds and if was soft and fudgey and perfect once again.
Sugar Free Flourless Chocolate Almond Torte
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter (1 cup) unsalted, cut into pieces
- 8 ounces 85% dark chocolate chopped
- 6 large eggs separated
- ¾ cup Swerve sweetener
- 1 teaspoon chocolate liquid stevia
- ½ cup almond butter no sugar added
- Optional topping: In a stand mixer combine ¼ cup heavy whipping cream with 2 tablespoon almond butter and ½ teaspoon liquid stevia. Spread on cake once cool and top with toasted slivered almonds.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a 10 inch spring form pan with parchment and spray with olive oil cooking spray.
- In a heat proof bowl over gently simmering water, melt butter and chocolate together. Stir until smooth. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer,stir egg yolks and swerve until combined.
- Gradually pour in melted chocolate mixture into yolks.
- Add in chocolate stevia and almond butter and stir until combined.
- In another bowl use an electric mixer to beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Fold them into the chocolate almond mixture until combined.
- Pour into pan and bake 35 minutes. Torte will be very moist in the middle.
- Transfer torte to a wire rack and cool completely in pan about 1 hour.
- Once cool, remove from pan and top with optional toppings if desired.
- Refrigerate left overs if whipped cream topping has been added. Does not need refrigeration if no topping has been added.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Julie
Looking forward to making this! Can you substitute swerve with Monk fruit?
Brenda
Monk fruit is sweeter than Swerve. https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/natural-sugar-free-low-carb-sweeteners-guide-conversion-chart/
Laura LaFontsee
Made 1 for the sake of. Just changed our butter for coconut oil. Amazong!Amazing!! Made 2 more for an event. Rave reviews! Nope not sharing this gem. Mine all mine.. lol. Ohh and great frozen in small pieces for grabs go.
Bev
If you don’t want to make the topping, you can put a cup of fresh raspberries on top and sift some piwdered Swerve over the top and it looks very elegant on a cake stand.
Bethany
I don’t have a 10 inch spring form pan but I do have an 11 inch. I did some math and I figured out that a 10 inch circle was roughly +|- 20% smaller than an 11 inch circle. So I added one egg and 20% more of each ingredient by weight; aside from the stevia which I eyeballed. Turned out fine.
Brenda
Awesome thank you for sharing!
Cynthia
Hi. What an awesome recipe! I can't wait to try it. What topping do you have pictured?
Peggy
How many serving per cake?
Brenda
Right under the title of the recipe before ingredients, servings: 12
Barb
Made this recipe as shown in my springform pan but a lot of the butter separated out during baking and ran out the pan. At 35 minutes the cake looked dry & very dark on the edges. Any idea what went wrong?
Thanks!
Luciana
This sounds delicious. If I want to ½ the recipe, what size pan should I use?
Robin
Hi Brenda. Can you recall which brand of 85% dark chocolate you used? Unsweetened I am guessing? I can find 55% and 100% in the unsweetened baking chocolate. Thank you for helping me with this detail. I didn't realize that Lilly's has bars of chocolate (not just chips) that I found in this search, but I made the assumption that I was looking for something completely unsweetened. Am I on the right track?
Brenda
I believe I used Lindt, but you can use either 85% dark or Lily's Sweets. 85% dark chocolate is not unsweetened but is so low in sugar and carbs and is just as good as using Lily's Sweets.
Robin
Thanks so much. I'm ready to buy your cookbook because I have been completely satisfied and encouraged with the recipes shared on your site. Thanks again for the time you've devoted to all this.
Brenda
Thank you!
Michelle O'Connor
Thank you for your great recipe. I have never made a torte. When I added the chocolate/butter mixture slowly. The mixture got all clumpy. Is that normal?
Shawn
Rather than butter, can you substitute coconut oil, and in place of serve sweetener, can coconut sugar be used? I have coconut sugar so if I can, I wanted to use what I already have. Another question..can the chocolate liquid stevia be optional? I have stevia packets, however I wonder if I can use that instead? Thanks!
Brenda
yes to butter, yes to coconut sugar and yes to swapping chocolate stevia.
Monika
Looks absolutely delicious. I wish it was written na grams, as one cup doesn't mean anything to me.
Helen Gujn
Thank you Brenda for this outstanding recipe! Absolutely delicious, my best friend was shocked it was sugar free and low carb. I needed to cut down on the cholesterol & calories so I used 3 yolks & 1/4 cup egg substitute & all 6 egg whites (I put the extras yolks in a small container & covered with carton egg whites to use another time). The torte was beautiful in my 9" springform. The whipped cream topping was a bit flat. I think the Almond butter deflated it. Is great with plain whipped cream & toasted almonds! I lean more toward milk chocolate but this time I used all 8 ounces of Lily's Baking bar 55%. It's great but next I will try the Lily' s Milk Chocolate 40% bar starting with 2, 3 ounce bars. I will keep lowering to cut calories until I think it can't take any less. Might try lowering the butter too. I will let you know the results. You are a genius and we appreciate all your hard work!
Brenda
So happy you liked it even with the subs you made. Good job and thank you!
Helen Guin
Sure wish I didn't have to make any subs! But even the reasonable 300+ calories is tough on a 1,100 calories a day diet! Hard to eat just one piece a day too! Just love it!
JJ
Did the recipe ingredients get messed up? This is what I'm seeing:
8 ounces 6 large eggs, separated
Brenda
glitchy plug in working on fixing it
Julia
What would be the measurements if I used Splenda instead of Swerve?
Brenda
I don't use Splenda but I can say it is much sweeter than Swerve so I would use half of what I used for Swerve and eliminate any stevia.
Sarah
I love chocolate and this definitely will be one of my favourite go to chocolate desserts. So delicious- thank you.
Brandy
This looks amazing! I want to make this for christmas. Do you think I could use Maple Almond butter (which is what I have on hand) and just leave out all the other sweeteners?
Cindy
I don't have a stand mixer.. what else can I use for the topping??
Brenda
You can make whipped cream in a mason jar:https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/sugar-free-whipped-cream-in-a-jar/
Dita MacDonald
Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. Like you, my hubby likes regular food (not low carb). I think he is going to love this torte!! I appreciate all your hard work. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your family!!
Brenda
Thank you so much Dita! Hope you have a beautiful Christmas as well! Hope he loves this dessert too!