Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This is my first gluten-free chocolate cake that's not from a mix. I tend to stay away from mixes, because I enjoy creating my own and also I like to add my own sweetener. I really like how it turned out but I do want to try another chocolate cake made with partly coconut flour.

For the sake of print-friendlyness, here is the full recipe. See below for my photo preparation!

Frosting Ingredients: 

8oz cream cheese (tofutti dairy-free, or similiar)

1/3 cup earth balance + 1 tablespoon (needed more after all)

1/2 cup organic powdered sugar + 6 tablespoons during mixing

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cake Recipe:

Dry ingredients:

1 cup sorghum flour

1/3 cup potato starch

1/3 cup tapioca flour

1 teaspoons xantham gum

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

Add later:

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Wet Ingredients in separate bowl:

1/2 cup apple sauce

1/3 cup agave syrup

1/2 cup organic cane sugar (not a wet ingredient, but you combine with these)

1/3 cup of coconut oil, liquified

Egg replacing ingredients (or 2 eggs):

6 tablespoons apple sauce

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp egg replacer

Preparation:

Add dry ingredients to a large bowl. 

Combine wet ingredients (minus the egg replacing ingredients) in a separate bowl as well. 

Let them sit while you prepare the egg replacing ingredients. 

Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry, along with the egg replacing ingredients. Stir well.

 Add the cocoa powder and after ingredients are mixed together well, add chocolate chips and lightly stir in.

Add to a 8 X 8 glass baking dish (greased with coconut oil) or cake pan of choice.

Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until tooth pick is inserted and comes out clean.

Egg replacing ingredients:

This is what it looks like. It starts to bubble up :)

Time to add the wet, dry, and egg replacing ingredients together:

I like to then add the cocoa powder:

Finish mixing ingredients together, then add the chocolate chips. 

For Frosting:

Add cream cheese and earth balance to a bowl:

Add powder sugar:

And begin to mix, adding 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar:  

Add vanilla extract and the remaining 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar and beat fully:

After cake is fully cooled, frost and enjoy:

Eat a slice with some coconut ice cream :)

-heather