Flourless Black Bean Chocolate Cake (gluten-free!)

Flourless Black Bean Chocolate Cake (gluten-free!)

70 min

Simply the best black bean cake I’ve ever tried. This fudgy, tight-crumbed, soft cake will make up for all the black bean baking failures you’ve ever had. No one will believe there's a whole can of black beans in it!

Ingredients

  • 1 15.5 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed* (or 1 3/4 cups cooked black beans)
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 5 tbsp melted butter or oil of your choice (vegetable, canola, grapeseed, avocado, a mild olive oil or refined coconut oil all work)
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 5 tbsp cocoa (Dutch-process preferred)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and line 2 6-inch round cake pans with parchment paper.