I’m always trying to find ways to eat healthier and desserts are always a good place to start, particularly after the holidays when we may have overindulged (wink, wink). This is an old recipe from my friend Charles who isn’t blogging as much these days, it’s a lovely Swedish almond cake that is packed with almond flavour and texture. It’s almost like eating a marzipan cake!
There is that darn winter light.
Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free Almond Cake
Ingredients:
- 225 g Erythritol, ground finely
- 150g Almond Flour (ground finer than meal)
- 50 g Coconut Flour
- 60 g Butter
- 2 Eggs
- 125 mL water
- 1 tsp almond flavouring
- zest of one lemon
- 30g Flaked Almonds
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 375° F. Prepare your spring-form tart pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Add the Erythrital, almond flour and coconut flour to the large bowl of your food processor and process to combine well.
- Melt the butter and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Combine the eggs, cooled butter, water, almond flavouring and lemon zest and mix well.
- While processing the flours, slowly drizzle in the wet ingredients until well combined (it will be more like marzipan than batter). Press into the prepared cooking pan and sprinkle the flaked almonds evenly all over the top of the mixture.
- Place carefully into the oven and bake for about 30-35 minutes. Take it out of the oven and set aside to cool before removing from the pan to slice up.
Notes:
- Erythritol (or monkfruit) is not new, it’s been around since the 1800’s. Sadly it has an unfortunate name because it sounds like a horrible chemical. In fact, it is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in fermented fruit and is 60-70% as sweet as sugar, but will not cause tooth decay or spike blood sugar levels and is only partly absorbed by the body but mostly discarded in the obvious ways. A Scottish chemist named John Stenhouse discovered it in 1848. The down-side is that it’s ridiculously expensive! It’s nearly $10 per kilo! (About $5 a pound!) Here in Toronto (traditionally more expensive than the burbs and smaller cities) sugar is $1.25 per kilo, $0.63 per pound so I can see why this might not catch on.
- Erythritol is sold in crystal format, I prefer to grind it super finely in my coffee/spice grinder to avoid a crunchy texture. The strange thing about it is that although it does melt, it eventually goes back to the crystal structure. Your baked goods will be a little grainier than with normal sugar.
- Some people don’t find erythritol sweet enough, so often it is paired with stevia but stevia has been known to have an aftertaste.
- You can use Erythritol 1:1 for sugar.
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