Reduced Sugar Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Fudge
A delicious, lower sugar version of a gluten free chocolate fudge cake! We have used Xylitol which is a natural sugar alternative with 0% sugar. You can make the cake without the chocolate fudge but it is an indulgence I think is worth it. I use 85% chocolate in the cake as it has less sugar the higher the cocoa content. You can decorate with candles, flaked almonds, or whatever takes your fancy.
Credited to: Coeliac UK
Kcal: 334.5
Difficulty: Well worth the effort
Serves 12
25 mins prep
65 mins cooking time
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 100g dark chocolate, at least 85%, roughly chopped
- 150g xylitol
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 110ml milk (divided)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 20g cacao powder or cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 140g gluten-free self-raising flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the chocolate fudge:
- 150ml double cream
- 100g dark chocolate
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp xylitol
Notes: *Please check our Food and Drink Information for suitable products.
Method
- Preheat oven to 170C/325F/gas 3. Grease and line a 8" cake tin.
- Heat a pan with the chocolate, butter, xylitol, and half the milk over a medium-low heat, until everything is melted and combined. Do not boil.
- Take the pan off the heat and mix in the remaining milk, then add the rest of the ingredients and mix until smooth and combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin and bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, checking with a metal skewer to see if it is cooked
- Allow the cake to cool slightly, then remove from its tin and allow to cool completely while you make the chocolate fudge.
- To make the chocolate fudge, heat the cream over a low heat until just below simmering point, then take off the heat and whisk in the other ingredients until it thickens. Allow to cool, at which point it should become a spreadable consistency.
- If you trim the cake top to make it flat, then crumble the trimming and reserve.
- Spread with the chocolate fudge over the cake, sprinkle with the crumb and then cover in your choice of fresh fruit.
Nutritional information per serving
Kcal
334.5
Fat
24.9g
Carbs
27g
Protein
4.2g
Fibre
3.4g
Sugars
2.7g
Hints and tips:
We make two sponges doubling the recipes for a party/centre piece and layering them together but still with the one quantity of chocolate fudge.
