The best Samoa Chocolate cake. Simple Samoa Chocolate Cake that tastes like the beloved girl scout cookie but as a cake with a moist, tender cake full of chocolate flavor covered in a coconut caramel topping with chocolate drizzle and dipped in rich homemade low-sugar chocolate. This cake is gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free and nut-free.
We’ve been super productive over here with getting our brand new training video series all ready to go live soon. After talking with our business coach she helped us figure out our game plan for the rest of 2016. It’s still hard to believe that we have 5 months left in this year. We have some big goals to reach and believe they will happen. Remember to never give up or stop believing in yourself and your dreams. You deserve to reach everything you want and more as there is plenty of love, wealth and abundance for us all. We truly believe that.
And you know what goes great with productivity is a delicious dessert to eat while working.
We are super excited to share today’s dessert recipe with you as we know you are going to love it.
Simple samoa chocolate cake that is gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free and grain-free
Let’s make this cake together.
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Your favorite Girl Scout cookie reinvented as a samoa chocolate cake.
Simply the best.
Layers of rich chocolate plantain cake, topped with chewy coconut caramel, chocolate drizzle and dipped in more chocolate! Sure to please lovers of samoas everywhere.
What’s not to love?!?
When we thought of this cake we knew we wanted a lot of chocolate. This cake provides that and more.
Unlike our raw samoa bar where we didn’t do any chocolate coated bottom. We call that recipe our lazy version.
This samoa cake we we decided to use the leftover chocolate to dip each cake slice into. Yes a little messy but so worth it. We promise.
This dessert is a nice balance of textures and sweetness.
How to make gluten-free samoa chocolate cake
This cake recipe was inspired by our other two samoa inspired recipes:
Flourless almond butter samoa bars
This newest cake recipe is pretty darn amazing we must say.
We happily enjoyed it over a few days.
Dates work wonderfully to create a creamy caramel like coconut packed topping and with the touch of chocolate balances everything out nicely.
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The Best Samoa Chocolate Cake
Simple gluten-free and grain-free Samoa Chocolate Cake that tastes like the beloved girl scout cookie but as a cake with a moist, tender cake full of chocolate flavor covered in a coconut caramel topping with chocolate drizzle and dipped in rich homemade low-sugar chocolate.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: one 8 inch square 1x
Ingredients
Chocolate cake
- 2 large plantains (14oz or 400g after being peeled)
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup raw cacao powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup applesauce (or sugar)
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 coconut oil, semi-solid
Coconut caramel topping
- 1 cup coconut flakes (3oz)
- 6 large medjool dates, pitted
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup coconut butter (2 1/4oz)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Chocolate sauce
- 4 tablespoons raw cacao powder
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil, semi-solid
- few drops of liquid stevia
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Peel plantains.
- Place plantains and remaining cake ingredients into blender or food processor.
- Blend until mixture is well blended.
- In a 8 inch baking pan lightly grease with some coconut oil.
- Pour the chocolate cake batter into baking dish.
- Bake for about 20 minutes.
- While cake is cooling make coconut layer.
- In a food processor, place dates, water, vanilla and coconut butter into food processor.
- Pulse until it starts to form a smooth texture.
- In a large bowl scoop the coconut flakes and top with creamy date paste.
- Stir to well.
- Next, place coconut layer on top of chocolate cake.
- Spread evenly.
- Next, in a small bowl make chocolate sauce by adding the cacao powder, coconut oil and stevia.
- Mix until mixture is smooth and add in as much sweetness as desired.
- Spoon chocolate sauce in pipping bag and drizzle over coconut layer.
- Use the leftover chocolate sauce for dipping each slice into if you would like additional chocolate.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12-16 slices
Some ingredient replacements:
If you don’t have coconut butter for the filling you might be able to get away with coconut oil or another nut butter of choice.
You can use any liquid sweetener for the maple syrup.
You can replace dates in the coconut layer with maple syrup – amount 3-5 tablespoons.
Hope you enjoy our Girl Scout inspired samoa chocolate cake recipe as much as we did!
xo
Lori and Michelle
5 comments
Yay for productiveness! 🙂 This cake looks to die for! I love the coconut and chocolate layers!
Thank you
Hallo I really like the recipe just cant see if the plantain is yellow ripe or what kind:-)
Thanks
You can use any ripeness plantain for it
This recipe is genius! Awesome job keeping it almost entirely allergen free! I can’t wait to try this. I love that there’s no refined sugar in it and that they’re all normal ingredients I have hanging around the house. Great job stepping up your game with the new website too 🙂
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