Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Amazing Paleo Chocolate Cake (gluten-free, d
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from downshiftology.com
It ranks #74 of 76 for crumb tenderness among the chocolate cake recipes we compared. 411 cooks on downshiftology.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 21% | 101% |
| total sugar | 78% | 232% |
| egg | 39% | 48% |
| leavener | 2% | 4% |
| salt | 1% | 2% |
| liquid | 113% | 200% |
| dairy | 66% | 117% |
| chocolate | 25% | 67% |
| acid | 3% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 360 g | 3 cups almond flour |
| 120 g | 1 cup tapioca flour |
| 30 g | 1/4 cup coconut flour |
| 400 g | 2 cups coconut sugar |
| 128 g | 1 1/2 cups raw cacao powder |
| 9 g | 2 tsp baking soda |
| 2 g | 1 tsp espresso powder |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs |
| 339 g | 1 1/2 cup full-fat coconut milk |
| 237 g | 1 cup water |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup coconut oil |
| 15 g | 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar |
| 9 g | 2 tsp vanilla extract |
| 1 recipe Vegan Chocolate Buttercream Frosting |
Method: 6 steps, published by downshiftology.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“My daughter and I made this into cupcakes last night and it was so yummy! We also used your chocolate buttercream recipe, but we omitted part of the cocoa and did half vegan butter half peanut butter to make a peanut butter frosting. It was soooo good! Thank y” — a cook, 5.0★
“This is my go-to cake! I love it so much! I always get so many compliments. I'll be honest, I don't make the icing.... Didn't have much luck with that. But I baked the cake and use store-bought icing (my family is gluten free, not totally paleo, so this wo” — a cook, 5.0★