I started creating grain-free and gluten-free cake recipes to make sure we’d always have food to celebrate life events, however big or small. Although, to be honest, I don’t really need a reason to make a cake. Here’s many of my grain-free cakes and cupcakes, and I have more cakes and cupcakes in my Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook.
Several of these recipes are dairy free or can be made dairy free by replacing one simple ingredient, such as olive oil in place of butter. And they’re all refined-sugar free, by using maple syrup or honey. I use finely ground almond flour in many of my recipes, however you can easily substitute almond flour for another nut or seed flour. Check out my “how to” posts for more on how to bake with almond flour and coconut flour.
To make them sugar free, replace the unrefined sweetener with the equivalent amount of low-carb sweetener plus any liquid volume that was lost. For example, if a recipe calls for 1/2 cup of honey you can use the equivalent amount of low-carb granulated sweetener, plus 1/2 cup of liquid. Or, use an equivalent of sugar-free low carb sweetener such as maple syrup made with a low-carb sweetener. My Everyday Keto Baking cookbook has more on baking with low-carb sweeteners and includes several low-carb cake and cupcake recipes.
Many of my cake recipes can also be used to make cupcakes. When baking them, just reduce the time by about half. And all my raw cakes can be made into cupcake or mini cakes.
Frostings & toppings
- Chocolate Buttercream
- Vanilla Buttercream
- Chocolate Whipped Cream
- Dairy-Free Chocolate Ganache
- Chocolate Ganache
- Nut Butter Frosting
- Chocolate Frosting
- Vanilla Frosting
- Maple Cream Cheese Frosting {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Maple Whipped Cream {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Coconut Whipped Cream and also in the Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook
- Dairy-Free Maple Cream Frosting {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Vanilla Cream Frosting {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
From my cookbooks
- Yellow Birthday Cake {almond & coconut flour} {Cooking for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet}
- Lemon Pound Cake {Cooking for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet}
- Blueberry Cinnamon Coffee Cake {Cooking for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet}
- Carrot Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Yellow Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Coconut Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Chocolate Layer Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Cinnamon Streusel Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Almond Cake {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
- Carrot Cupcakes {Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook}
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