Healthy Gluten-Free Chocolate Lava Cakes (with Oat Flour)

Why you’ll love this recipe

• 🌿Healthier: This easy chocolate lava cake has no refined sugar, no eggs, and no flour, making it a healthier lower-calorie version.
• 🥞Quick and Easy: You only need one bowl and just a few minutes to whip up the dessert.
• 🥚Simple Ingredients: You probably already have all the ingredients in your pantry.
• 🙌Make-Ahead: You can easily make them ahead and keep in the fridge to bake at the last minute before serving.

Recipe Ingredients

• Oat Flour: The essential ingredient to make these molten lava cakes healthier and gluten-free. If you don’t have oat flour, you can blend oats into a fine powder.
• Baking Powder: Baking powder will help the oatmeal chocolate lava cake rise.
• Cocoa Powder: Use high-quality unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa powder for the best result.
• Maple Syrup: Maple syrup is a great sugar alternative to sweeten the dessert. Use high-quality pure maple syrup.
• Milk: You can use any milk of your choice, either dairy or plant-based.
• Dark Chocolate: A small cube of dark chocolate will make the lava cakes even more decadent.

This is just a short review of the ingredients; for the complete recipe, including quantities, scroll down to the recipe card 👇

Substitutions and Variations

You can customize this vegan chocolate lava cake recipe to your liking and dietary preferences.

• Use different flour: If you don’t have or don’t like oat flour, you can use different types of flour, like gluten-free 1:1 flour, wholemeal flour, or spelt flour.
• Use different chocolate: While cocoa powder is essential to give the lava cakes their chocolate flavor, you can use different chocolate cubes of your choice, like white, milk, or flavored chocolate.
• Use different sweeteners: Instead of maple syrup, you can use honey, coconut sugar, or brown sugar.
• Give it a citrus twist: Add some orange zest to the cake dough for a delicious citrus twist.
• Add more proteins with nuts: Add a swirl of peanut butter or top the cakes with crushed almonds, or pistachios.

How to make healthier chocolate lava cakes

1. In a bowl mix oat flour, baking powder, pinch of salt and cocoa powder.
2. Add maple syrup and milk. Mix until combined and smooth.
3. Divide the batter between prepared ramekins. Place one cube of high-quality dark chocolate in the center of the batter.
4. Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges are set, but the center is still soft.

Tips and Tricks

• If you make them in advance, wait until the last minute to add the chocolate cube, so it won’t sink to the bottom.
• If you don’t have oat flour, you can blend rolled oats into a fine powder.
• Bake them just before serving to have the best warm and gooey chocolate lava cakes.

Make Ahead and Storage

You can easily make these gluten-free chocolate lava cakes in advance and keep them covered in the fridge. Take out of the fridge 30 minutes before baking to bring them to room temperature, then bake just before serving.

If you have leftovers, you can store them covered in the fridge for up to 5 days. You can reheat them in the microwave, although they might not keep the molten lava effect after reheating.

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