🍰 Flourless Maple Cake With Maple Icing. This is a no flour cake recipe, that uses beans and nuts instead. Just like the Black Bean Brownies recipes this cake is a gluten free cake recipe, a flourless cake recipe suitable for people with a gluten intolerance. So if you are searching for cake recipes without flour; this may be the one for you.

Ingredients
Cake:
2 - 540 mL (19 oz) cans white beans, drained and rinsed
125 mL (½ cup) maple syrup
5 mL (1 tsp) pure vanilla extract
4 eggs
125g (3.5 oz) finely ground almonds
10 mL (2 tsp) baking powder
100g (100 mL) melted butter*, or other fat
Pinch of coarse salt
*instead of butter, you could use coconut oil or veg shortening


Method:
Preheat the oven to 190ºC (375°F).
Grease and line an 8" springform cake pan.
In a food processor, purée the beans, maple, and vanilla until smooth.
With the processor running; add the eggs one by one.
Transfer the bean mix into a bowl; add the almonds, baking powder, butter, and salt.
Mix to combine.
Transfer the batter into the pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
Let the cake cool a few minutes in the pan, then release and let cool completely on a rack.
Top with icing when fully cooled.


Maple Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:
115g (4 oz) cream cheese, room temperature
30 mL (2 Tbsp) butter, room temperature
30 mL (2 Tbsp) pure maple syrup
5 mL (1 tsp) pure vanilla extract
125 mL (½ cup) icing sugar

Method:
Beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl until smooth.
Add maple syrup, and vanilla; beat until smooth.
Add just enough icing sugar to reach your desired stiffness.

**This was a very tasty cake - when eaten cold from the fridge. When served at room temp, the texture changed a bit and it was less inviting.

0:00 Welcome to Flourless Maple Cake With Maple Icing Recipe
0:30 Recipe development idea - Black Bean Brownies
0:45 Flourless Maple Cake With Maple Icing Recipe Ingredients
1:24 getting the maple syrup and pouring it
2:30 Pureé the beans
2:36 Add the eggs to the food processor
3:27 mixing in the almonds
4:43 Pour batter into pan and bake
5:02 Making the Maple Icing Recipe
5:52 Icing the flourless gluten free cake
5:58 Tasting Flourless Maple Cake With Maple Icing Recipe


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