Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake
This Sugar-Free ,Flourless Espresso Chocolate Fudge Cake is everything chocolate and coffee lovers dream of! Keto, Low Carb, Gluten Free, Nut Free, and Grain Free!!!
FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE
When you want the flavor of a cup of strong brewed coffee and a fudgey cake mixed into one fabulous dessert, this will be your new favorite cake! I had a birthday.
I’m not one to often make much of my birthday. Birthdays are more for my kids. But simple homemade cards are just my thing. When the kids make me cards, I’m happy and it’s enough.
Except when it comes to birthday cake. I NEVER want to feel deprived on my birthday, EVER. I always make myself a birthday dessert. Every birthday is always about cake. Chocolate to be exact.
But when I first decided to be free from sugars hold in my life I mourned what I thought was the loss of my chocolate birthday cake dreams. I was so wrong then, that was 12 years ago. There’s always room for chocolate and always a way to make most anything sugar free, especially a birthday cake.
HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE
Ingredients
This cake is amazing because no flour is needed and that is exactly why it is so fudgey! You will need sugar-free chocolate chips, eggs, butter or coconut oil for dairy free, low-carb sweeteners, unsweetened cocoa, xanthan, coffee extract, and instant espresso powder.
Directions
Start by preheating your oven to0 350 degrees F and line a 9 inch spring form pan with parchment and spray it with olive oil cooking spray.
Place a heat proof bowl over a pot of simmering water.
Melt the butter and chocolate together. Stir well. Remove from heat and set aside.
Place the egg whites and vanilla stevia into a stand mixer and blend on high until stiff peaks form. Set aside.
In a separate bowl place the egg yolks and Swerve and mix well. Set aside.
In another bowl whisk the cocoa, salt, xanthan gum and espresso powder together. Stir this into the chocolate mixture.
Add the coffee extract and chocolate stevia to the chocolate mixture and stir until combined.
Fold in the egg whites by hand into the chocolate mixture in small portions until incorporated.
Pour batter into the pan and bake 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean.
Allow to cool at least one hour before removing. Once cool you can frost and a refrigerate cake until ready to serve.
Make frosting by adding all ingredients to a stand mixer and blend on high until thickened. Spread over cake and sprinkle with chocolate shavings if desired.
Storage Information; It’s best to store leftover fudge cake in an airtight container in the fridge to keep it nice and moist and delicious. It can be stored for up to 7 days.
CAN I SKIP THE ESPRESSO?
The coffee extract is needed with the espresso powder, otherwise the chocolate will overpower the flavor of the coffee in this cake. The coffee is really more of a chocolate enhancer and truly makes the chocolate flavor even more noticeable. If you are really a coffee hater, you could certainly skip it and the cake will still be perfectly fudgey without it.
CAN I SWAP THE SUGAR FREE SWEETENERS USED?
If you’re not a fan of the liquid flavored stevias I use in this recipe, you do have some other options. One of our newer favorite low carb sweeteners that doesn’t leave an aftertaste, is Better than Sugar by Sweetleaf.
They have a confectioners powdered sweetener and they also have a granulated option. It’s a combination of erythritol and stevia and has plenty of sweetness as sugar would provide.
Swerve confectioners sweetener is low carb, but doesn’t have as much sweetness and you may need to use a bit more to get this as sweet as you like or do like I did in this recipe and also use liquid stevia. A
llulose would be another option, but again it isn’t as sweet as using the Better than Sugar sweetener. Allulose comes in a liquid, and granulated form.
Use my updated Sweetener Conversion chart to look up the different sweetener options and find the right amount to use.
CAN I MAKE THIS DAIRY FREE?
It is just two easy swaps to make this chocolate fudge cake dairy free! For the cake itself, you just need to swap out the butter with a dairy free option like coconut oil. If you want to make the sugar-free frosting dairy free, you would need to swap out the heavy whipping cream for canned coconut milk.
SUGAR FREE KETO BIRTHDAY CAKE OPTIONS
Each year before my birthday I experiment with a cake for that day. You see, I was born on Thanksgiving and my birthday lands on that day every 7 years.
The first year I didn’t make anything, no cake for me, boo, but I wrote about it and about aging. The next year I made my Triple Chocolate Layered Fudge Cake from my cookbook, NATURALLY KETO. Another year, I made this chocolate pecan pie for my birthday. I’ve also made this Peanut Butter Cheesecake for my birthday which everyone couldn’t believe was sugar free!
But this year, oh man. This year was the cake of all cakes. I don’t know how I will ever top this cake next year and make anything better.
This cake is like fudge. FUDGE! Melt.In.Your.Mouth. Fudge Cake! Worth every calorie. Worth every bit of time in the kitchen. Worth.It.
BEST TIPS FOR PERFECT CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE
- Be sure to get stiff egg whites which could take about 15 minutes in the mixer. If you can flip over the bowl and they don’t move, they are stiff.
- You can use any chocolate you enjoy but, Lily’s Sweets is my favorite. They have sugar free candy bars as well.
- If you don’t have the flavored stevia you can use clear or just vanilla stevia.
- If you do have left over cake, refrigerate it. I reheated one piece by simply heating in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE
Sugar Free Flourless Chocolate Espresso Fudge Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 8 ounces sugar free chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup butter cut into cubes
- 8 large eggs separated
- 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- 3/4 cup Monk Fruit Allulose Confectioners
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee
- 1 teaspoon coffee extract
- 1 teaspoon chocolate liquid stevia
Frosting
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup Monk Fruit Allulose confectioners
- 1/4 cup coffee strong brewed, chilled
- 1/2 teaspoon coffee extract
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso coffee
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a 9 inch spring form pan with parchment and spray it with olive oil cooking spray.
- Place a heat proof bowl over a pot of simmering water.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together. Stir well. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Place the egg whites and vanilla stevia into a stand mixer and blend on high until stiff peaks form. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl place the egg yolks and Swerve and mix well. Set aside.
- In another bowl whisk the cocoa, salt, xanthan gum and espresso powder together.
- Stir this into the chocolate mixture.
- Add the coffee extract and chocolate stevia to the chocolate mixture and stir until combined.
- Finally add the egg yolks to the cooled chocolate mixture in the stand mixer and blend until combined.
- Fold the egg whites by hand into the chooclate mixture in small portions until incorporated.
- Pour batter into the pan and bake 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool at least one hour before removing.
- Once cool you can frost and a refrigerate cake until ready to serve.
- Make frosting by adding all ingredients to a stand mixer and blend on high until thickened.
- Spread over cake and sprinkle with chocolate shavings if desired.
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.
This is fabulous! I made it as cupcakes since it is just my husband and I-I wanted to be able to store it easily and frost individually. We have a week of treats. It made 16 cupcakes. I would make the cake in a flash for a gathering (and I will!). This cake truly is fabulous. I did not have vanilla stevia so I used plain and it was fine. I probably should have added vanilla but next time! Make this!
Love that you turned them into cupcakes, thanks for sharing!
Where do you get xanthan gum and I can’t find coffee extract where do I get that
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Made this following instructions and ingredients. The teaspoon of xanthan gum can’t be right. The batter would not mix with the egg white mixture, at all.
Stupid question here. Do you line just the bottom with parchment paper or the side as well? Also, you have double chocolate as one of the ingredients. I’m not sure what that is. Thank you.
The double chocolate was the name of liquid stevia by Sweetleaf but they no longer have it available, it’s just chocolate stevia. Yes line the bottom but you could just grease the sides well.
I have made three of your recipes and all have been delicious. My husband was a naysayer when it came to anything no sugar or low carb but he are most of the carrot cake cheesecake!
Oh and for those that may be wondering, the cake can be frozen. the answer is yes. Cake doesn’t lose texture, taste, or any bad side effects.
Thank you!
This was excellent! I should have never made it though as it’s only me in the house…I’m in trouble.
Sounds delicious and in line for my next not-so-sinful, sinful treat! Question, what is double chocolate in the recipe? Also, I have espresso pods (Tassimo), can brewed be subbed for the instant or would another instant coffee work? I’d rather not go out and buy (even if I could find it here) instant espresso for one recipe. Thanks again, love your recipes!
I think the pod can be subbed for the instant espresso.
My husband made this for me the other day and all I can say is that you out did yourself with this recipe! It really is as good as you described it would be. AMAZING!!!
Awe that makes me so happy, thank you for coming back to share!
Can this be made without Stevia?
Any substitute I can use instead of Coffee Extract?? Can I use a Coffee flavoring, i.e. Folgers Flavors??? It is a coffee enhancer. Thanks for for great recipe. Can’t wait to try it.
I’m sure any coffee flavoring would work, might not be as strong flavored as using the extract but it will work.