We try and limit wheat where possible in this house generally; it’s really helped my eldest who has urticaria (hives) and limits his rashes and it makes us all feel good (fear not, I’ll still be sharing wheat treats here)…but along with rice noodles/ spaghetti, we love experimenting with alternative flours and adore rice flour, in fact this rice flour chocolate cake tasted even better than when we made it a few months ago with wheat flour. Honestly!
Light, tasty and quick to make, you will simply LOVE this cake!
Ingredients:
Makes 8-10 servings
- 110 g mixed brown and white rice flour (we love Doves Farm gluten free rice flour)
- 20 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 56 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 125 g granulated sugar
- 42 g bittersweet dark chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 large free range eggs
- ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 100 ml whole milk, at room temperature
Method:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Grease an 8-inch round cake tin and line the bottom with parchment paper.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Whisk or stir rapidly to form a chocolaty mixture.
In another large bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, adding in the melted chocolate until combined.
Beat in egg and vanilla to the mixture. Add the flour and milk.
Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for approx 35 minutes. Insert a skewer into the centre to check it has cooked through.
Cool and serve with single cream.
Delicious!
Let me know if you try it, won’t you!
Thank you for my first rice flour cake ! It turned out awesome. I was sceptical because I am an infrequent amateur baker.. I didn’t know if the rice flour I used for south Indian cooking would work.. I substituted eggs with flax seed+water and 1/4 cup banana, and used cane sugar instead of granulated sugar. Didn’t have applesauce at home but went ahead anyway, very doubtfully….but it was delish , moist, crusty on the outside. Will be peeping into your other recipes soon 😊
You list baking soda but no measurement in ingredients. What is the amount of baking soda?
Hi I like your rice flour chocolate cake recipe. Just one question though, is there just baking powder or even baking soda in the recipe as when reading the method both baking soda and baking powder appear.
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I am just about to bake this for my lovely niece Ellie who has a gluten-free diet. Just one question, the recipe says ‘beat in egg, cream and vanilla ti the mixture’ but there is no mention of cream in the ingredients….. am i missing something??
Thanks Wendy, sorry that’s a mistake and I’ve removed it. Hope you love the cake, I have lots of gluten-free recipes on the blog, thanks x
After trying MANY wheat and wheat free recipes this is a real winner! absolutely fantastic! perfect flavour and texture. thank you so much!
Yay so please Clare, we love it here too!
I was thinking if I can substitute almond milk for whole milk?
Looks like we’ve both been making Chocolate cake this week! Yours looks amazing 🙂 x
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Thanks Debra, will head over to yours now x
Rice flour – it’s one of those ingredients on my to-try list yet I keep forgetting about it. Maybe because we can’t find it in stores over here meaning I’d have to grind my own. Your cake looks amazng and I’m envious of the pretty plate.
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It looks amazing and I wouldn’t have guessed it’s not made with wheat flour, what a great non-wheat alternative!
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Thanks sweetie, it’s so good and you won’t taste the difference x
Interesting the use of rice flour, I’ve never used it before
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It’s a brilliant flour!
Might have to try with rice flour!
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It really is so good Stacey x
that sounds and looks lovely – i have never used rice flour before x
jenny paulin recently posted…Black Cherry & Chocolate Chip Mini Panettones
Thanks Jenny, a really versatile flour x
Oh my, this is my kinda cake – chocolate can do no wrong:-)
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Ha I agree Camilla, thanks for your lovely comment!
Your cake looks delicious! I would love to try baking with rice flour. Fab recipe!
So glad you like it x
I have never used rice flour, I probably should though, as I often find wheat just a bit too heavy. (More than enough stodge in my diet!)
This cake could well be my introduction to it!
Thank you for hosting this link, I find so many new blogs & recipes! X
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So pleased Kitty, think you will love it and so pleased you are enjoying the linky, thanks for your lovely comment x
This cake looks delicious, I love chocolate with strawberries 🙂 all linked up x
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Thanks darling, so glad you like it x
Lovely idea! I’ve never even baked with rice flour!
…Wednesday is my tuesday this week! …But we had a real life #tastytuesday moment, actually baking and eating these beauties 😉
Thanks for hosting hun! You do a FANTASTIC job.
Oh wow fab Steph, seriously you will love rice flour x
All these recipes look so good I’m not sure where to start? Your chocolate cake most likely! Thanks
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Ha very true Jane, we get amazing link-up’s! Thanks for joining in x
It looks delicious! I wish I had had your recipe a few months ago when Jumpy had her baked egg challenge in hospital. The rice flour recipe I found on Pinterest was rather awful (and gritty, yuk!). I will be keeping your recipe for when the consultant gets her to have her next baked egg challenge. Thanks for sharing lovely!
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Hope she’s OK Mel and honestly this isn’t gritty at all, you cannot tell the difference between rice flour and wheat in this recipe. I suspect it might be down to the flour, we use Doves Farm Gluten Free rice flour which is wonderful (will add that to the recipe in fact) x
oh wow this looks amazing!! yummy
Thanks Tina!
WOW that looks delicious. I am on a strict diet at the moment after my long two month time in america but this is mouth watering. it’s pure torture reading this but heaven. Thanks for sharing and hosting my lovely. I will be back on the food train soon and blogging some fabulous festive recipes.
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Oh bet you don’t need a diet at all gorgeous, thanks for your kind words as it’s rice it’s pretty healthy x
This looks totally delicious! And as it’s wheat free I can eat it too – yummmm! So glad you’ll be featuring some gluten free recipes as part of Tasty Tuesdays 😉
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Thanks Michelle, thanks, I have done before and will include wheat ones too still, thanks for your lovely comment x
Rice flour? I’ve never ever baked or cooked with rice flour!
You should try it, it’s delicious!
My hubby eats a lot of gluten free stuff to control his eczema and this looks perfect for him. It looks SO delicious too.
ahhh just as i’m trying to be good I look at this photo! *must not think of yummy looking chocolate cake*
*caves*
*adds to list*
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haha! Pretty healthy being rice flour and all that-I ate it for breakfast xx
Oooh yum, I love anything with chocolate in it and this looks gorge! xx
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It really is delicious hun x
Such a gorgeous looking chocolate cake, it’s making me hungry and I’ve just had lunch.
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Thanks Julie, I had it for breakfast x
Wow this recipe sounds and looks really delicious, I love the plate you used too. I will have to give this a try as I am certain my children will love it too! Thank you for hosting such a great link up 🙂 #Tastytuesdays
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Thanks darling, love a floral plate x
Wow, that looks like a tasty cake for Tasty Tuesday!! Along with not having gluten in our house, I try and limit rice though…which is tricky when bringing up a coeliac child and it is in everything! Whenever I cook it means I try to avoid rice so that she doesn’t get an overload of it (due to the arsenic in it). I am sure people think I am crazy but no studies have been done yet apart from on rice milk…which the NHS now say shouldn’t be given to under 5’s due to the levels of aresenic v the size of their bodies. It stands to reason to me, that a child who is a coeliac or on a wheat free diet should therefore limit their rice intake where possible…since most gluten-free products are rice based. Anyway, that is my little rant over!! Sorry but it is something I feel really strongly about and worry about for my lo.
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Oh no worries, really interesting, not heard of that before but will have a look into it. I’d be interested to see Chinese and Japanese studies as it features so frequently in their diet and are some of the healthiest ways to eat in the world.
Nice to try a gluten free alternative. I try to limit how much we have too x
Fab, we feel so much better with less wheat in our diets x
I usually use rice flour in dishes and not yet on baking! Does look yummy!
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I’ve never cooked with rice flour – I’ll have to give this a go … if I can find rice flour in France that is!
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You will love it! Hope you find the flour!