Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

A friend came over this week and we baked  together.  I wanted to use my favorite mini Savarin tray from Demarle At Home.  This flourless batter is difficult to remove from that tray so I would select a larger option in the future.

We started out thinking these would be brownies, but they are not the right texture.  Certainly it is the texture of cake so we renamed it.

The brownie experiments will have to wait for another day.

Mini savarin tray is no longer available for sale.  Some of my followers have this tray though so all is not lost.

 Chocolate Beanie Cake

7 ounces canned  black beans, drained
4 small eggs  (this time I doubled the recipe and used 7 medium eggs)
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
3 tablespoons coconut oil
1/4 cup honey (I have future plans to make it with chicory root sweetner)
1/4 teaspoon soda
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder

Place all ingredients in a food processor and mix until smooth. This is a runny mixture and pours well.

Please note that Demarle At Home molds and trays do not usually need to be greased or oiled.  However, this flourless recipe needs it on the small openings (not on larger ones).  Spray tray with cooking spray.  Pour batter into tray sections and bake at 325 F for 13 minutes for the mini savarin tray or mini heart trays.

Recommended: When we used the bouquet tray it took 22 minutes at 325 and came out without any problem even though it was not greased.

If the cakes will not release easily, place tray in freezer for a half hour or so before tip out.

Invert the cake bites onto a serving tray.

Top with:

Cream Cheese Frosting
8 oz packages cream cheese
1/4 cup honey
1/2 stick unsalted butter
a dash of sea salt
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

This cream cheese frosting recipe is a winner.   You will see me use this again.

Update:

It is Monday now and last night I decided to make this recipe again.  This time I doubled the recipe and instead of 8 small eggs I used 7 medium.  For variety I made it in the small heart shapes and the baked versions did not want to release.  Humph!   So the next batch into the oven went into the bouquet tray.

Just out of the oven before the frustrating tip out.  This heart tray is no longer available though some of my followers own it already.

Here they are.  The yummy frosting covered up the parts that were imperfect from sticking to the tray.

Now these came out perfectly.  They are a larger shape from the bouquet tray which I just found out on 2-6-13 is sold out.  Thankfully some of you already own this tray.

Cream cheese frosting as I told you I will be using again.  See above.