Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Health Staff
Updated
"I have a friend who has celiac disease, and he moaned to me that he'd never eat another chocolate cake. So I did this gluten-free recipe for him. It's my go-to dessert right now; it's like a fudgy brownie." Olive oil makes a cake moist, flavorful, and provides heart-healthy fats.

Yields: Serves: 12

Ingredients

  • 2/3 regular olive oil, plus more for greasing cake pan

  • 6 good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder

  • 1/2 boiling water

  • 2 pure vanilla extract

  • 1 1/2 almond meal or 3/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour

  • 1/2 baking soda

  • Pinch of salt

  • 1 superfine sugar

  • 3 large eggs

Nutrition

calories 272

fat 0.0g

saturated fat 0.0g

monounsaturated fat 0.0g

polyunsaturated fat 0.0g

protein 0.0g

carbohydrate 0.0g

fiber 0.0g

cholesterol 0.0mg

iron 0.0mg

sodium 0.0mg

calcium 0.0mg

Directions

  1. Turn off mixer. Scrape down sides of bowl and stir a little with a spatula. Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake until sides of cake are set and very center, on top, still looks slightly damp, 40 to 45 minutes. A cake tester should come up mainly clean but with a few sticky chocolate crumbs clinging to it.