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Raspberry Chocolate Cake (Gluten Free)

May 1, 2014 by Sarah Trivuncic 34 Comments

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Today’s gluten free chocolate cake recipe is from The Little Book of Chocolat by Joanne Harris and Fran Warde. gluten free chocolate cake recipe with raspberries

As you may know I love all things French and Joanne Harris’s first novel Chocolat was right up my street.

Better still when Chocolat was made into a movie with one of my favourite actresses. I adore Juliette Binoche – having also loved her performances in Les Amants du Pont Neuf, The English Patient and Breaking and Entering.

The plot of Chocolat if you do not recall, surrounds a single mother, Vianne Rocher who – the harlot! – opens a chocolate shop in a French village during the self sacrificing and decidedly non-chocolate-indulging season of Lent. Of course the villagers outwardly think she’s a terrible person for tempting them during the season of abstinence but one by one they all get caught sneaking in for some chocolate temptation. One of my favourite scenes in Chocolat is when Juliette Binoche informs one of the most fuddy duddy women from the village that some chocolates are called “nipples of Venus”. Well! That’s just too outrageous for words for the repressed madame to handle.

Not made into films but equally entertaining to read are Five Quarters of the Orange, set during the German occupation of wartime France and Blackberry Wine a story of a man who hallucinations of the past whilst drinking his way through 40 year old fruit liqueurs passed down to him by a deceased relative. I have a jar of black currants that I bottled in vodka in 1999 so I only have to hold on to these for another 25 years so I can try it out for myself! Joanne does excel in portraying villages of hostile residents – Coastliners is about two rival villages on an island similar to Ile de Re in France.

Beyond her delectable novels, Joanne has previously published – alongside Fran Warde – some cookery books. I am the proud owner of The French Kitchen and The French Market so I was delighted to hear that the duo had now concocted The Little Book of Chocolat .

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The Little Book of Chocolat features 50 chocolate recipes and is dedicated “to chocoholics around the world”. Kicking off with a tribute to the Aztecs, “Quetzalcoatl’s Chocolate Cake” to penance prompting “Sisters of Mercy profiteroles”, this veritable bible of chocolate recipes is the perfect sneaky treat to reward yourself or gift to a friend this Eastertide.

Fran Warde and Joanne Harris

Top five recipes I’d like to try are:

Maple and walnut chocolate ice cream

Pets d’Ange (cloud meringues)

Celeste Praline Cheesecake

“Juliette Brioche” – a nickname given to Juliette Binoche whilst filming Chocolat!

and of course the Josephine’s Flourless Chocolate Cake featured below.

If you’d like to win a copy of The Little Book of Chocolat, I have 3 copies to give away after the recipe.

Flourless chocolate cake with raspberries

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Raspberry Chocolate Cake (Gluten Free)

Gluten free chocolate cake recipe "Josephine’s Flourless Chocolate Cake" Takes 2 hours / serves 8 This flourless chocolate cake is rich, dark and guaranteed to deliver just the right kind of punch. I like it the way it is, straight out of the oven, but the crème fraîche and raspberry topping give it a grown-up, elegant balance of flavours
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time45 minutes mins
Total Time1 hour hr
Course: Baking
Servings: 8 slices
Author: Joanne Harris & Fran Warde

Ingredients

  • A little butter for greasing
  • 300 g dark chocolate broken into
  • small even-sized pieces
  • 200 g butter
  • 6 eggs separated
  • 200 g caster sugar (superfine baking sugar)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • <em>Topping</em>
  • 200 ml creme fraiche
  • 225 g fresh raspberries

Instructions

  • Heat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Butter a 20cm loose-bottomed non-stick cake tin and line with baking parchment.
  • Melt the chocolate and butter in a bain-marie. Whisk the egg whites until they are firm and stand in peaks, and then, in a separate bowl, whisk the yolks and sugar until light and creamy. Add the melted chocolate and vanilla extract and blend. Add this to the egg whites and whisk until evenly mixed.
  • Pour into the prepared cake tin and place in the middle of the oven for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven, cool for 5 minutes, then carefully remove the cake from the tin. (The cake may collapse and crack at this stage, but this is normal – and besides, you’re going to top it with raspberries and cream.) Leave to cool completely, then casually spread the top with crème fraîche and finish with a cluster of fresh raspberries.

 

Reproduced with permission from The Little Book of Chocolat: Fifty recipes celebrating the bestselling novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris and Fran Warde published by Doubleday at rrp £12.99. Photographer: copyright Philip Webb (recipe) and Johnny Ring (pic of Joanne & Fran)

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If you like Josephines flourless cake, you might also like my five minute no butter chocolate cake recipe made with yogurt!

Which chocolate recipe would you like to see Joanne Harris feature in a story?

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Comments

  1. Camilla @FabFood4All says

    May 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    Sachertorte

    Reply
  2. Lucy @SupergoldenBakes says

    May 1, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    Chocolate fondants – I love the melty centres

    Reply
  3. Tracy K Nixon says

    May 1, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    A velvety Belgian chocolate mousse!

    Reply
  4. Helen @ the crispy crouton says

    May 1, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    Gooey chocolate fondant!

    Reply
  5. Tracey Peach says

    May 1, 2014 at 6:02 pm

    Chocolate Gateaux

    Reply
  6. Laura Lou Denman says

    May 1, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    A French version of chocolate brownies =)

    Reply
  7. charleneflash says

    May 1, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    Triple chocolate brownies x

    Reply
  8. Corina says

    May 1, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    Chocolate fondant

    Reply
  9. ashleigh says

    May 1, 2014 at 8:08 pm

    Chocolate fudge brownies!

    Reply
  10. lindarumsey says

    May 1, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Chocolate Yule Log

    Reply
  11. Nazima says

    May 1, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    ooh love all things chocolate , I love your cake here. I have made a flourless cake before and it was wonderful but not as light looking as the one from this lovely book

    Reply
  12. Frances Sunshine Hopkins says

    May 2, 2014 at 7:44 am

    Chocolate cheesecake

    Reply
  13. clair downham says

    May 2, 2014 at 11:48 am

    a big chocolate yile log for xmas

    Reply
  14. Food Ren (@RenBehan) says

    May 2, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    Ooh what a lovely book, I’d go for chocolate filled doughnuts!

    Reply
  15. Jan Bennett says

    May 3, 2014 at 7:04 am

    Lovley book and the flourless chocolate cake looks seriously good!

    Reply
  16. kim neville (@kimneville2) says

    May 4, 2014 at 6:50 am

    Chocolate Yule Log

    Reply
  17. Victoria L says

    May 4, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    chocolate and orange scones

    Reply
  18. Leanne Lunn says

    May 4, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    Chocolate fudge cake

    Reply
  19. Deborah says

    May 5, 2014 at 12:35 am

    Chocolate fudge truffles!

    Reply
  20. KELLYJO WALTERS says

    May 5, 2014 at 7:40 am

    chocolate beetroot cake

    Reply
  21. Debra Lee says

    May 6, 2014 at 6:32 am

    Those truffles had me drooling!

    Reply
  22. cookwitch1 says

    May 7, 2014 at 8:41 am

    Oh oh I adore Joanne Harris. Blackberry Wine is one of the most beautiful books I have read, and continue to re-read at any opportunity.

    I think a properly rich chocolate and cherry cake, or gateaux, would be a lovely recipe to have. Or anything with chocolate + hazelnuts. 🙂

    Reply
  23. Urvashi Roe says

    May 8, 2014 at 9:34 am

    It is a day of chocolate cakes today. I’ve just been drooling over at Utterly Scrummmy’s blog too. This is a good one for me to bookmark actually as I have a gluten intolerant nephew so he’d love this!

    Reply
  24. Urvashi Roe says

    May 8, 2014 at 9:35 am

    P.S I’;m with Ren on the doughnuts

    Reply
  25. Antonia says

    May 9, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    Chocolate and salted caramel tart. That flourless chocolate cake looks divine!

    Reply
  26. amyjay92 says

    May 10, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Chocolate Fondant!

    Reply
  27. Michelle @ Greedy Gourmet says

    May 11, 2014 at 10:58 am

    Those raspberries look ready to burst! You just can’t go wrong with chocolate cake, especially yours.

    Reply
  28. lfountain1 says

    May 11, 2014 at 11:28 am

    Thanks so much for the delicious chocolate book giveaway!

    I would have to chose chocolate yule log!

    Reply
  29. Caroline says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    chocolate truffles which of course do feature.. I’ve just read three of Joanne Harris’s books on the trot and was actually noting down some recipes to try, I had no idea there was an actual cookery book!

    Reply
  30. Imogen (@imogenc) says

    May 13, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    Salted caramel and chocolate truffles! Or really, just anything chocolate!
    I’ve just finished Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure (the third in the series after Lollipop Shoes about Vianne Rocher) – a great read!

    Reply
  31. Sandra Clarke says

    May 13, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Chocolate trifle.

    Reply
  32. Natalie Crossan says

    May 14, 2014 at 11:35 pm

    Chocolate fondant 😀

    Reply
  33. Elena says

    July 1, 2014 at 5:23 pm

    WOW! This looks LUSH! I’ll try the recipe out when I’m having a bad week at my diet 😛

    Reply
  34. Rose says

    February 7, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    5 stars
    I just love your write up on “Chocolat” and the other stuff. It all serves to persuade me I must make this cake ( shopping tomorrow). After all it is gluten free so can’t be that bad for me can it?

    Reply

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