About Recipe

This nut-free flourless chocolate cake came about as a result of an interesting challenge — finding out whether it’s possible to make a gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-friendly birthday cake for a girl who can’t eat grains, starches, beans, nuts, seeds, binders or leaveners. That meant all grain flours were out — so no glutinous grains {obv.}, but also no rice, millet, buckwheat, sorghum, oats, etc. No starches? Well out goes tapioca, potato starch, and arrowroot and no leaveners and binders too {goodbye baking soda and guar gum…} — you know, just the things that make a gluten-free flour blend work… Beans — meh, no biggie — not a fan of those anyways in gluten-free vegan cakes unless they can be well masked. The next logical conclusion would be to make one of my raw cakes, but oh, wait — no nuts and seeds either! I began to see why the person asking for advice with this cake found it a challenge!

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