I've bee looking for sugar (and
sweetener!) free cake recipes without much luck.
I've done muffin in a mug type things with combinations of milled flax seed, almond flour, baking powder, egg, and butter, cream , almond milk, or water. it turns out a bit more like bread than cake though. You can add a few blueberries or raspberries to the mix to sweeten it a little.
I've also found this recipe which has no sweetening (or flour of any sort!) in it at all, but am waiting on our next Tesco shop for the Philly before I can try it:
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
4 eggs
200g cream cheese/Philadelphia
100g butter
100g dark chocolate (70%)
Flaked almonds or any nuts
(1 tsp vanilla flavoring)
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
Grease a springform tin with a little butter.
Melt butter, break chocolate into pieces and stir until melted,
don't overheat or else you get a grainy mixture.
Beat eggs untilfluffy, add the cream cheese, a little at a time, beating well
after each addition.
Using a spatula stir in the chocolate butter mix, stir well.
Pour batter into springform tin and sprinkle with nuts.
Bake on the middle shelf for 15 - 20 minutes.
Super good to eaten warm with whipped cream
Robbity
PS regarding disasters: my late brother-in-law once decided to make me a devils food cake for my birthday: his trial run turned out perfectly, but the actual birthday one definitely did not. He presented it with apologies, but it was impossible to eat and got thrown out for the birds, who refused to touch it either! It ended up as a standing family joke.