Chocolate Cake with Coconut Cream Frosting

On 13 May, 2016, my son turned 10. In these 10 years we have seen so many phases of the life and we have to see many more. He was the only reason when I started GFCF diet and since then we had a lot of research on diet and health. My son loves the chocolate cake so I thought this time I will bake the chocolate cake on his birthday. He celebrated his birthday with his friends in the school.

Chocolate Cake with 3 types of frostings - Chocolate Coconut Cream Frosting, Vanilla Coconut Cream Frosting and Strawberry Coconut Cream Frosting

There was one time when I was working on sugar free recipes, so I was looking for different replacements for sugar. And then I posted my cake recipe - Sugar Free Vanilla Cake. This recipe used xylitol as a sugar substitute. The cake was also yummy and everybody's favorite. But somehow for some reasons, I used sugar in this chocolate cake. The recipe is almost same as my other cake, but modified to make it rich chocolate cake. And the main part of this cake are different Coconut Cream Frostings.

Sugar Free Vanilla Cake

Chocolate Cake 

3/4 cup Coconut Oil (softened)

3/4 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Cocoa Powder

1 cup Brown Rice Flour

1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum

3 Eggs

1 tbsp Gluten Free Baking Powder

Few drops Vanilla Extract

1 tbsp Coconut Milk

 

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F. Grease and flour (gluten free flour) 8-inch round cake pan.
2. Combine cocoa powder, brown rice flour, xanthan gum and gluten free baking powder in a medium size bowl.
3. In a separate bowl mix sugar and coconut oil in smooth mixture. Add eggs and beat the mixture into a smooth batter.
4. Add dry ingredients to the bowl and mix thoroughly until the mixture is smooth.
5. Pour the mixture into the cake pan. Bake it for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Let it cool in the pan for few minutes, take the cake out from the pan and put it on the cooling rack.

Chocolate Cake

I used 3 types of frostings and decorated the cake for my son's birthday.

 

Chocolate Coconut Cream Frosting

 

1 cup Coconut Cream (I used Nutiva coconut manna / purée)

2 tbsp Cocoa Powder

1/8 cup Sugar

Few drops of Vanilla Extract

 

1. Microwave coconut cream for few seconds to soften it. 
2. Mix all the ingredients in the bowl.

Chocolate Coconut Cream Frosting

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Coconut Cream Frosting

 

Vanilla Coconut Cream Frosting

 

1/2 cup Coconut Cream

1/4 cup Sugar

1/8 cup Coconut Milk

Few drops of Vanilla Extract

 

1. Microwave coconut cream for few seconds to soften it. 
2. Mix all the ingredients in the bowl.

Vanilla Coconut Cream Frosting

 

Strawberry Coconut Cream Frosting

 

1/2 cup Coconut Cream

1/4 cup Sugar

4-5 Strawberries

Few drops of Vanilla Extract

1. Purée the strawberries in the blender.
2. Microwave coconut cream for few seconds to soften it. 
3. Mix all the ingredients in the bowl.

Strawberry Coconut Cream Frosting