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    By Alisa Fleming on January 19, 2015 Dairy Free Desserts, Dairy-Free Recipes

    Eat Dairy Free - Your Essential Cookbook for Everyday Meals, Snacks, and SweetsToday’s post for the Dairy-Free Recipe Potluck, a delicious event leading up to the 21-Day Dairy-Free Challenge, is all about the sweet Laurie Sadowski, her latest cookbook, The Allergy-Free Cook Makes Pies and Desserts, and a sample recipe from it, fudgy mocha pudding cake.

    Like all of Laurie’s recipes, this rich delight is free of dairy, eggs, gluten, and soy, and is suitable for the vegan diet. Yet, as you can see, this fudgy mocha pudding cake is nothing short of indulgent.

    Fudgy Mocha Pudding Cake - Marvelously messy, rich, decadent, gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan!

    I asked Laurie why she is dairy-free and why she creates dairy-free recipes, and she gladly shared her story:

    Laurie Sadowski - The Allergy Free Cook“When folks ask me why I’ve written cookbooks, the answer is easy: to help others realize that when you have restrictions, baked goods can taste just like the real thing. That’s usually followed with: “Well, you must miss ______________ [insert item here].” The truth? I don’t—nothing is worth the discomfort when you’re dealing with health issues.

    About 12 years ago I was diagnosed with celiac disease, showing both the classic gastrointestinal symptoms and peripheral neuropathy. Though I began a strict gluten-free diet, my internal medicine doctor was alarmed that I wasn’t completely responsive. If you’re familiar with the autoimmune disease, you might know that many people are lactose intolerant when they still have damaged villi. He suggested I cut out lactose, and when that didn’t make a difference, dairy. Long story short, the neurological symptoms began to subside, I started to gain weight, and my liver enzyme levels (which had been over 800), began to fall. His suggestion was to maintain a dairy-free diet—which was easy, because I felt so much better. Soon after, I began to dabble in a vegan diet, having eaten mostly vegetarian through my life, anyway. So milk? It’s never on the menu over here, unless in the form of coconut or almond, my top picks for baking and my coffee!”

    The Allergy-Free Cook Makes Pies and Desserts by Laurie SadowskiLaurie has penned three fantastic baking cookbooks (thus far): The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread, The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Cakes and Cookies, and her latest title, The Allergy-Free Cook Makes Pies and Desserts. All three recipe collections have Laurie’s whimsical touch and ample tips for getting perfect results. I’ve made several of her recipes, and not only do they work every time, they are also extremely versatile and easy to adapt with her flour and ingredient guides.

    In fact, Laurie has even adapted her own fudgy mocha pudding cake (recipe below) into a romantic Valentine’s Day-inspired Red Wine Fudge Pudding Cake.

    Fudgy Mocha Pudding Cake - Marvelously messy, rich, decadent, gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan!

    Special Diet Notes & Options: Fudgy Mocha Pudding Cake

    By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, vegan / plant-based, vegetarian, and generally top food allergy-friendly.

    Not gluten-free? If you prefer a wheat-based fudgy mocha pudding cake, you can substitute 3/4 cup all-purpose or white-wheat flour for the two flours and omit the xanthan gum. If you have trouble locating tapioca starch, another starch can be substituted in a pinch. That said, I enjoy Laurie’s recipes as is, with those wonderful whole-grain gluten-free flours!

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    Gluten-Free Fudgy Mocha Pudding Cake
     
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    Prep time
    20 mins
    Cook time
    35 mins
    Total time
    55 mins
     
    Coffee naturally enhances the flavor of chocolate, but even more adds a mocha-flavor that’s hard to pass up. Brew some extra coffee one morning so you have an excuse to make an easy weeknight dessert.
    Author: Laurie Sadowski
    Serves: 9 servings
    Ingredients
    Cake Batter
    • ½ cup unrefined cane sugar (such as Sucanat or coconut sugar)
    • ½ cup sorghum flour
    • ¼ cup teff flour
    • ¼ cup tapioca starch
    • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum
    • ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
    • ½ cup unsweetened dairy-free milk (such as So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut Milk Beverage or Cashew Milk), room temperature
    • ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • ½ cup dairy-free semi-sweet chocolate chips
    Pudding Mixture
    • ½ cup unrefined cane sugar
    • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
    • 1½ cup brewed coffee
    Instructions
    1. Position an oven rack to the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Lightly oil a glass 8-inch square baking dish.
    2. To make the cake batter, put the sugar, sorghum flour, teff flour, tapioca flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, xanthan gum, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk until combined.
    3. Put the milk, oil, and vanilla extract in a small bowl. Mix well.
    4. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour the milk mixture into the well and stir until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. The mixture will be very thick.
    5. Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared dish.
    6. To make the pudding mixture, put the sugar and cocoa powder into a small bowl. Whisk until combined. Sprinkle the cocoa-sugar over the cake batter.
    7. Put the coffee in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Slowly pour it overtop of the cake batter. Do not stir.
    8. Bake on the middle rack for 30 to 35 minutes until the top of the cake is dry and firm. Don’t overbake—if you do, the bottom won’t be pudding.
    9. Let cool 20 minutes before serving. Serve warm.
    Notes
    This recipe is reprinted with permission from The Allergy-Free Cook Makes Pies and Desserts. The Book Publishing Company. © Laurie Sadowski, 2013. All rights reserved.
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    Alisa is the founder of GoDairyFree.org, Food Editor for Allergic Living magazine, and author of the best-selling dairy-free book, Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook for Milk Allergies, Lactose Intolerance, and Casein-Free Living, and the new cookbook, Eat Dairy Free: Your Essential Cookbook for Everyday Meals, Snacks, and Sweets. Alisa is also a professional recipe creator and product ambassador for the natural food industry.

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    2. Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious on January 20, 2015 8:29 am

      Wow does that look gooey and rich! My spoon is poised….

      Reply
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    4. eat good 4 life on January 20, 2015 7:18 am

      This looks terrific. Right up my alley being gluten free and vegan 🙂

      Reply
    5. Christie on January 20, 2015 5:40 am

      Fudgy and healthy. Love this pudding cake.

      Reply
    6. Jaclyn on January 19, 2015 11:41 pm

      This looks so good! Any idea what I can do to replace the sorghum flour, teff flour and xanthan gum? Appreciate it thanks

      Reply
      • Alisa Fleming on January 20, 2015 8:09 am

        Do you mean with wheat? If so, see the post info above the recipe Jaclyn. If you still want to keep it gluten-free, what are your parameters?

        Reply
    7. Ricki on January 19, 2015 6:33 pm

      Man, that looks incredible! A must-try, I’d say. And even okay for anti-candida maintenance if you use coconut sugar! 😀

      Reply
      • Laurie on January 20, 2015 7:32 am

        Ricki! Coconut sugar would definitely work. Let me know if you test it out, or work out some adaptations together.

        Reply
        • Ricki on January 22, 2015 10:06 am

          Thank you, Laurie!! Will do. I’m sure it would be delicious any which way! 😀

          Reply
    8. Kristina on January 19, 2015 4:43 pm

      you had me at FUDGY. this sounds and looks so intensely GOOD, I cannot wait to make it! thank you!

      Reply
      • Laurie on January 20, 2015 7:32 am

        Kristina, I’m so glad you think so! Let me know if you test it out and how it goes!

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