{"id":912,"date":"2015-04-13T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=912"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:59:24","slug":"gluten-free-chocolate-cake-with-raspberry-coulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/gluten-free-chocolate-cake-with-raspberry-coulis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten Free Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Coulis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were having friends over for lunch and I had to come up with a dessert with no gluten and no dairy.\u00a0 I tore this from a magazine in the dentist&#8217;s office (that&#8217;s what those magazines are there for :)).\u00a0 This is a very unusual cake as it uses dates as the sweetener, ground almonds instead of flour and coffee in place of milk.\u00a0 It looked amazing on the plate with the raspberry sauce and tasted divine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Cake<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup pitted dates<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup boiling water<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 cup cocoa powder<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 cup brewed coffee<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup almond flour<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 cup potato starch<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas cinnamon<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 teas baking soda<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/4 teas salt<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 large eggs, seperated<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/3 cup oil, coconut, olive or other oil of choice<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas chocolate extract<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas vanilla extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Sauce<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup raspberries<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 tbls honey<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 teas lemon juice<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 tbls water<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Extra raspberries to decorate plate<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Icing sugar to sprinkle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Cake Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat oven to 350F.\u00a0 Grease a 9&#8243; pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.<\/li>\n<li>Put dates and 1 cup boiling water into the glass jar of a blender or food processor.\u00a0 Let soak for about 15 minutes.\u00a0 Blend the dates with the soaking water until smooth.\u00a0 Remove cover to cool.<\/li>\n<li>Combine cocoa powder and hot coffee in a large bowl.\u00a0 Set aside to cool.<\/li>\n<li>Stir the cooled date paste, egg yolks, oil and vanilla and chocolate extract into the cooled coffee mixture.<\/li>\n<li>Beat the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer until soft peaks form.\u00a0 Remove to a small bowl.<\/li>\n<li>In the bowl of the stand mixer add the almond flour,\u00a0 potato starch, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.\u00a0 Give it a stir.<\/li>\n<li>Add the cocoa date mixture to the bowl of the stand mixer with the flour mixture and beat until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Fold in the egg whites with a spatula or a whisk.<\/li>\n<li>Pour into prepared pan.\u00a0 Bake for 33 minutes.\u00a0 Remove from oven and let rest 10 minutes or so.\u00a0 Run a knife around the edge of the pan and dump the cake onto a cooling rack.\u00a0 Peel the parchment paper off the bottom and flip the cake back over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Raspberry Coulis<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine raspberries, honey and lemon juice with 2 tbls water in a blender or food processor and puree.<\/li>\n<li>Strain through a fine mesh strainer to remove seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>Serve the cake on individual plates with the raspberry coulis, fresh raspberries and a sprinkle of icing sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were having friends over for lunch and I had to come up with a dessert with no gluten and no dairy.\u00a0 I tore this from a magazine in the dentist&#8217;s office (that&#8217;s what those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,91,69,169,79,90,87,274,104,93],"tags":[332,19,23,156,331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}