Grainfree Eggnog Liquor Chocolate Cake

 This cake is another wonderful grain free cake option. The Eggnog liquor, you can use store bought or make it yourself (recipe coming soon) makes it more festive, but don't be fooled this cake is great at any occasion.The grated chocolate gives it an interesting chocolate chip type of texture.  I tend to use 70%+ cocoa dark chocolate in all my baking. It's healthier for you and is less sweet. Feel free to substitute with milk chocolate, but you might need to adjust the sugar amount, if you don't want the cake to become too sweet.

What you will need:

1/3 cup of butter, at room temperature

1/2 cup of sugar

5 eggs, separated

2 packs of Vanilla Sugar

1 1/4 cups of almond flour

1 tsp of baking powder

100 g of good quality chocolate, grated

150ml of eggnog liquor (if you don't want the alcohol in it, you can omit the rum in the recipe)

500ml of heavy cream

2 packs of Whip it (a whipping cream stabilizer)

Chocolate shaving for decoration

 

Here is how we make it:

Preheat oven to 350F and line and grease an 8" Springform pan with parchment paper

Beat your butter until creamy

Add 1/3 of the sugar and one package of vanilla sugar , mix to incorporate.

Add the egg yolks, one at a time and incorporate well between additions.

Stir in almond flour, baking powder, grated chocolate and 2 tbsp of eggnog liquor.

In a separate bowl beat the egg-whites until stiff peaks form.

 

Fold in the egg whites into the cake batter.

Pour batter into Springform and bake for 55-60 min.

Let the cake cool completely in the Springform.

In a large bowl whip cream, remaining sugar and Whip It until stiff peaks form.

For this step I enlisted the help of my little girl and baker in training,  Evie.

After the cake is cooled and out of  the Springform, use 2/3 of the whipping cream to cover the cake.

Put the remainder of the whipping cream in a piping bag and pipe flower on top of cake for decoration.

Spread the remainder of the eggnog liquor on top of cake and spread gently.

Finish with chocolate shavings.

If you can resist and let the cake sit in the fridge for a day it will taste even better.