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Easy Keto Wacky Cake AKA Depression Cake (Egg Free)

  • Writer: Keto Upgrade
    Keto Upgrade
  • 6 hours ago
  • 5 min read

A super easy and crowd pleasing keto cake you can throw together in about 10 minutes. One bowl, one pan, bake and can top with anything from as easy as a dusting of powdered sugar with fresh berries to as complicated as a keto whipped ganache or buttercream frosting. I have a whole keto cake and frosting playlist on YouTube along with corresponding blog posts linked in all the videos.



A very simple recipe, there are just a few choices I made to make it a little better for a keto recipe. I used a combo of sweeteners to give the best result since we aren't putting this on the mixer and there is less moisture because of the lack of eggs. So I chose to use a powdered erythritol sweetener in combination with allulose and a little bit of liquid stevia because I like it a little sweeter. I used powdered to decrease the graininess in the end cake from not dissolving sweetener granules. The allulose I use strategically in small amounts to add moisture to keto baked goods. You just have to be careful to not add to much because it can make your cake to wet which makes it take much longer to bake then in turn can burn or get too dark. You can use any amount of sweetener you want in the cake, I wouldn't use more than 1/4 cup of allulose but the erythritol, you can use any powdered version you want.



The other swap I made was using a little bit darker of a cocoa powder. The original recipes just called for unsweetened cocoa powder, I thought it could use a little more flavor so I used half unsweetened cocoa and half black cocoa. If I had a Dutch processed cocoa powder that is what I would have used for all the cocoa powder in the recipe.


Other than that I just used my normal flour mix of unflavored whey protein isolate, coconut flour and xanthan gum. Which makes this normally vegan cake not vegan anymore so I tried to find a good replacement for the whey protein, check out the video to see the things I tried- https://youtu.be/2r_gvLCtGFA, The best I found was egg white protein powder but then again that made it not vegan anymore, so it was a frustrating day of experiments. I have found many alternatives for replacing the coconut flour but have not found the best replacement for the unflavored whey protein. For coconut flour you can use 3x the amount in almond flour or you can swap the coconut flour equally in grams for bamboo fiber or oat fiber.


Other than those caveats the rest of the recipe I pretty much kept the same as a regular non keto recipe. Baking soda, salt, vanilla, oil, vinegar and water and/or coffee.

I used avocado oil which I believe is a little better of an oil than canola or vegetable but I'm sure you can use any fat you would like. Then I did do water with a bit of instant espresso powder for the water/coffee mix most recipes call for. Either all water or half water, half coffee.



Keto Wacky Cake


60g/about 1/2 Cup Powdered erythritol sweetener

40g/about 1/4 Cup Allulose

12g/2 Tbs. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

12g/2 Tbs. Black Cocoa Powder (or more unsweetened cocoa/all dutch processed cocoa powder)

80g/1 Cup Unflavored Whey Protein Isolate

30g/about 1/3 Cup Coconut Flour

1/4 tsp. Xanthan Gum

1 tsp. Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt


1/2 Cup Neutral Oil (I used Avocado)

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1 Tbs. Vinegar (White or Apple Cider)

1 Cup Water or Half Water/Half Coffee

5-10 drops Liquid Stevia (Optional, to taste)


Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray an 8x8 baking pan with spray, Silicon bakes faster than glass, if using silicon place on a sheet tray

  2. Weigh/measure and whisk together all the dry ingredients in a medium size bowl, make one large well in the dry ingredients then also two small wells

  3. Measure out the water/coffee then measure the oil into the large well then the vanilla in a small well and vinegar into the last well

  4. Begin to whisk and add the water/coffee and whisk until well combined then pour into the prepared 8x8 pan

  5. Bake for 22-30 minutes, rotating half way through, different pans bake at different rates along with different ovens baking differently

  6. Let cool then serve as desired, I took it out of the pan and frosted the whole thing because I like more frosting but I believe it is suppose to just be frosted in the pan and served


Check out the video to see the frosting I chose for the cake- https://youtu.be/2r_gvLCtGFA


Most wacky cakes are just served with a very simple frosting of cocoa powder, powdered sugar and a few tablespoons of water to make a spreadable frosting. But with keto powdered erythritol having the cooling effect I think it would be a little overpowering.


Macros for just the cake: 1/9


170 Calories

13g Fat

10g Total Carbs

2g Fiber

7g Sugar Alcohol

1g Net Carbs

9g Protein


Macros with a chocolate coffee cream cheese whipped cream frosting: 1/9


330 Calories

29g Fat

15g Total Carbs

3g Fiber

10g Sugar Alcohol

2g Net Carbs

11g Protein


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