Now you can enjoy an easy Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake without worrying about slipping up.
This is sugar-free chocolate fudge comfort food ...at its finest!
All this for only 5.5g net carbs per double-layer slice WITH chocolate fudge frosting.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake
There is a misconception that you can’t enjoy your favourite baked treats on the keto diet and for many, the thought of giving up chocolate cake is too much of a personal sacrifice!
Sure, traditionally baked cakes are very high in carbs and sugar which is why this Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake recipe swaps out whole wheat flours for almond and coconut flour, as well as refined sugar for healthier sweeteners.
It’s low-carb, sugar-free, and gluten-free!
How To Make A Double Layer Sugar-Free Chocolate Cake
Once I’ve combined all my cake mixture ingredients together following the recipe below, I pour the Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake into 2 sponge tins and sandwich them together with my Chocolate Fudge Cream Cheese Frosting.
Butter, vanilla, salt and sweetener STRONG hot coffee Pour HOT coffee to melt the butter Mix until melted and sweetener is dissolved Add cocoa and flours as per recipe
The easy healthy cake recipe makes a substantial size celebration cake so if you want to cut down further on your carbs, then I suggest treating the two layers as separate cakes rather than a double layer cake.
You can even get creative and use this cake mixture to bake cupcakes or a square cake that can then be frosted and sliced.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cream Cheese Frosting
If you can't enjoy chocolate cake without frosting, I've got you covered.
This cake requires a creamy decadent frosting/icing, but not as sweet as you may be used to, and that's for good reason. To live sugar-free, you need to slowly adapt your tastebuds to less sweet foods.
The cream cheese provides some sharpness to the overall flavour which I quite enjoy since I have finally lost my sweet tooth.
You can also play around with the sweetener quantity, either adding more or less depending on your current sweet tooth. Just beware that adding more sweetener can sometimes add to a bitter aftertaste when using a sweetener such as stevia.
TOP TIP: As with ALL recipes here, ALWAYS taste your batter BEFORE cooking to ensure you have added enough sweetener to suit YOUR tastebuds. Read the Ultimate Guide To Low-Carb Sweeteners.
If this is day 1 of sugar-free living for you, you may require twice the amount of sugar as someone who has been living sugar-free for years. So don't be afraid to add more sweetener. The longer you live sugar-free, the less sweetener in time you will require.
Lastly, add some double cream which will not only give the frosting the thickness of chocolate fudge but also helps to make the cream cheese a spreadable consistency.
I have used coconut cream in another Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting recipe of mine that you can use here too but avoid it if you don’t want the subtle coconut flavour.
With the cake mixture baked and the frosting added, you won’t believe that a double-layer single slice of this Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake is only 5.5g net carbs!
Read more: The Ultimate Guide To Sweeteners
Have Your Cake AND Eat It!
Whether you are celebrating a birthday or just have a love for cake, this Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake is a lifesaver for all those chocoholics following the Keto diet.
It’s disappointing when store-bought desserts that are labelled as keto don’t live up to the taste test, but this recipe is definitely one to bookmark for your next special occasion or guilt-free treat.
It’s not only drool-worthy, but is low-carb, sugar-free, AND gluten-free!
More recipes you may like:
If you are interested in trying out some other delicious low-carb chocolate cakes, be sure to have a look at some of my favourite recipes which I have tried and tested:
- Low-Carb Instant Pot Chocolate Cake + VIDEO
- Slow Cooker Low-Carb Chocolate Lava Cake + VIDEO
- Low-Carb Mug Cakes + VIDEO
- Low-Carb Slow Cooker Vanilla Berry Cheesecake + VIDEO
- Sugar-Free Instant Pot Chocolate Mousse + VIDEO
- Keto Double Chocolate Chaffle + FREE cookbook
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Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake
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Ingredients
Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake
- 110 g (4 oz) butter softened and cubed
- 25 g (¼ cups) granulated sweetener of choice or more to your taste
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
- 80 ml (⅓ cups) coffee hot
- 70 g (⅔ cups) cocoa powder
- 250 ml (1 cup) heavy/double cream
- 150 g (1 ½ cups) almond meal/flour
- 60 g (¾ cups) coconut flour
- 2 tbsp baking powder
- 4 eggs - medium
Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Frosting
- 225 g (8 oz) cream cheese softened at room temperature
- 55 g (2 oz) butter melted
- 25 g (¼ cups) granulated sweetener of choice or more to YOUR taste
- 45 g (½ cups) cocoa powder
- pinch salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2-4 tbsp double/heavy cream
Instructions
Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake
- In a large mixing bowl add the softened and cubed butter, sweetener, vanilla, salt, hot coffee and mix until dissovled.
- Add cocoa powder. Mix until smooth and lump-free.
- Add heavy/double cream and almond flour/meal. Mix until smooth.
- Add coconut flour and baking powder. Mix until smooth.
- Add 1 egg at a time, mixing after each additoon.
- Divide the Sugar-Free Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake into 2 greased and lined sandwich cake tins.
- Bake at 180C/350F for 25 minutes. Please adjust time according to your oven and whether you are using fan bake, fan forced, regular convection etc.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge Frosting
- Place the softened cream cheese into a mixing bowl, pour the melted butter on top. Mix until smooth.
- Add the powdered sweetener, cocoa, vanilla and salt. Mix until smooth.
- Add double/heavy cream, 1 tablsespoon at a time until you reach the thickness of chocolate fudge frosting that you desire.
Notes
- The coffee is not enough to make this a mocha cake, it is there to enhance and amplify the chocolate fudge flavour.
- For the coffee, you can use a good espresso or use 2 tbsp instant coffee dissolved in 1/3 cup of hot water.
- If you overheat your cream cheese when making the fudge frosting, it will become very sloppy and runny. Simply pop it into the fridge to solidify for 1-3 minutes.
- The nutrition is for 1 double layer sugar-free flourless chocolate fudge cake with frosting. To reduce the carb value, you can reduce how much frosting you require or enjoy just one layer at a time.
Nutrition
1-Minute Keto Mug Cakes
If you are having a cake emergency and want to stay on track, why not make my 1-minute low-carb mug cakes, with directions and recipes for 4 flavours.
You might love chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon swirl or even lemon curd (my favourite).
Or why not try them all?
Hellen
Hi Libby, this looks awesome! What size tin did you use?
Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com
I used 2 18cm (7inch) sandwich tins. I have also baked it in a rectangle dish so it became a brownie - yummo!
Caroline Hall
I love the idea of sugar free recipes but every time I try they just end up tasteless. My cake texture was great, the frosting lovely but my cake sponge was just so bitter and tasteless 🙁 I used stevia sweetener, I'm new to this so maybe needed more?
Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com
Yes, you may need more. The hardest thing to judge is how much sweetener every reader may need to use. All the recipes on my site are a guide and I always state “or more to your taste” because what might be acceptable to one person may be over sweet or bitter to another. All my readers are on different paths in their sugar-free life. Some are absolute beginners so may require double what I state in a recipe, and others have lived sugar-free for years and so may only use half or even zero! So ALWAYS taste a recipe BEFORE baking and don’t be afraid to use additional sweeteners. But as time passes you will require less.
TOP TIP: If you forget to taste and adjust before baking and the cooked recipe is not sweet enough for you, serve with sweetened whipped cream.
Which sweeteners do I use? - here is The Ultimate Guide To Sweeteners - which ones I use and which ones I avoid.
Jan
No clue what went wrong but followed recipe exactly. It was dry and crumbly. Tossed it. Bummer. Costly mistakes with Keto desserts.
Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com
Noooooo 😭 something has happened Jan. Did you use the wrong flour perhaps? Not enough eggs? Let's see if we can figure it out. I want you to fall in love with this cake.
Geline
Mine turned out dry and crumbly too. Maybe it’s because I used coconut cream instead of heavy cream? I was able to save it by patching it up with frosting but still dry as a desert