There’s also no white sugar, no butter, no oil, and no flour in it.
That’s right, a cake without any of those ingredients but tastes every bit as good as cake made with them. The cake is soft, extremely moist, dense but not heavy, and has bold peanut butter flavor that’s complemented by chocolate. You’re going to love this amazingly easy and secretly healthier cake. I adapted the recipe from Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Blender Muffins which are gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, under 100 calories each, and one of the most popular recipes on my site with readers. That recipe also spun off a Flourless Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Mini Blender Muffins. People write constantly to say how much they doubted the recipe would be good or that it would even work, but the recipe makes believers out of them and is a family favorite for so many.
I use storebought peanut butter and recommend baking with it because natural and Homemade Peanut Butter tends to be thinner, runnier, and can separate. Some people have luck baking with natural peanut butter, others don’t. The same can be said for almond butter. It’s much thinner and runnier than peanut butter, and some people have had luck using it with the muffins, but I haven’t tested it with the cake. There’s a tiny amount of sugar in commercially made peanut butter, but it’s so small and for the comfort of knowing the recipe will work, I use storebought. I use mini chocolate chips because they don’t sink to the bottom of the cake as easily as full size chips do. Sprinkle a few extra chips on the top before baking to make the cake really shine. The banana flavor is present but not overwhelmingly so and takes a backseat to the peanut butter flavor. The riper and therefore sweeter the bananas are, the more their flavor will come through. I don’t recommend substituting with applesauce, zucchini, or omitting the banana.
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