Recipe: A gluten-free chocolate cake that will make you forget everything else

The struggle often gets real for people who are trying to go gluten- free. And if there is a special occasion, missing out on the cake makes it all the more difficult.

So we asked Chef Santhanam, the pastry chef at Radisson Blu Atria in Bengaluru to share his secrets for the perfect gluten-free dessert. And trust us, once you've tried this, you won't want to settle for anything else.

Gluten-free chocolate cake

Almond base:

Ingredients
Butter (soft): 100 gm
Icing sugar: 75 gm
Vanilla essence: 5 ml
Almond essence: 5 ml
Almond flour: 110 gm

Method
- Cream together butter and icing sugar. And add the essences.
- Fold them with almond flour
- Transfer the batter into a mould, and make a thin layer.
- Bake in pre-heated oven at 180 c for 10 minutes
- Take it out from the oven and let it cool.

Cake:

Ingredients
Whole Eggs: 2
Egg yolks: 5
Castor sugar: 90 gm
Dark chocolate: 250 gm
Butter (soft): 40 gm

Method
- Mix eggs with sugar.
- Melt butter with chocolate
- Mix both the mixtures together and pour it in into a pre-baked almond base.
- Pour water in a baking tray and place the almond base in. Bake in pre-heated oven at 170c for 30-35 minutes.
- Take it out and keep it in the chiller for 2 hours.