This Chocolate Avocado Cake is an insanely delicious, moist, rich, decadent cake that you would never know had avocado in it!

Insanely moist & rich chocolate cake! It's the avocado that makes it truly spectacular!

Chocolate Avocado Cake

I was strolling through the grocery store the other day with Olivia. I had only a few things on my list… milk, beef, avocados, and cereal. Those are the staples in our house because we have taco’s at least twice a week. And drink lots of milk! But there was such a great price on avocados I bought a bunch.

Insanely moist & rich chocolate cake! It's the avocado that makes it truly spectacular!

After a relaxing shopping trip (which is quite honestly a reward in itself) I got home and realized that I may have added a few things to my list.

Chocolate. Lots of chocolate. And fruit. Lovely organic fruit. And maybe some more chocolate.

Insanely moist & rich chocolate cake! It's the avocado that makes it truly spectacular!

So what would I do with all these organic avocados, chocolate, and raspberries?

Bake a cake of course. I mean, I am baker. But then I had to go about finding a recipe that would accommodate such unique ingredients. After testing quite a few, I settled upon a recipe that yielded the most moist, dense, rich chocolate cake I have ever had.

It was exactly like a cake I had in a high-end artisan bakery that was charging $12 a slice!

Chocolate Avocado Cake with Raspberries

How to Make Chocolate Avocado Cake

Make sure the avocado is mashed fine. If you can, use a food processor.

Coffee is recommended in this recipe, but if you would prefer to not use it, feel free to substitute water.

I highly recommend using GOOP (Homemade Baking Spray) to prepare your pans for this recipe. Because the cake is SO moist and dense I found that it stuck a bit when using a baking spray.

Insanely moist & rich chocolate cake! It's the avocado that makes it truly spectacular!
Insanely moist & rich chocolate cake! It's the avocado that makes it truly spectacular!
4.63 from 8 votes

Chocolate Avocado Cake and Chocolate Buttercream

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
This is an insanely delicious, moist, rich, decadent piece of chocolate cake that just happens to include avocado!

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake

  • 5 -6 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped
  • ¼ cup 32g baking cocoa
  • 3 cups (375g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ cup (50g) vegetable oil
  • 2 cups (460g) coffee
  • 1 large ripe fresh avocado, cut lengthwise, pitted, and mashed (no chunks)
  • 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
  • 1 cup (200g) brown sugar

Chocolate Buttercream

  • 1½ cups (340g) butter, room temperature
  • 4 cups (500g) confectioners' sugar
  • ¾ cup (94g) baking cocoa
  • 4 tablespoons (60ml) heavy whipping cream
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch table salt

Instructions

Chocolate Cake

  • Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare two 8" round baking pans with baker's spray or GOOP.
  • Combine chocolate, cocoa powder and three tablespoons of coffee in a heat-proof bowl. (The best way to do this is the brew coffee and place 2 cups into a medium bowl. Remove 3 tablespoons. You will use the remainder in a moment.)
  • Place bowl over a pot of simmering water, gently stir until melted and combined. Remove from heat. (You can also melt in microwave. Heat for 30 seconds then switch to 10-second increments. Stir between each heating.)
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
  • In another bowl, whisk together the vegetable oil, remaining coffee, avocado,and both sugars. Stir in the slightly cooled chocolate.
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Whisk until fully combined and smooth, scraping the side of the bowls completely. (try to not over mix)
  • Divide batter between both baking pans. Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
  • Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Chocolate Buttercream

  • In a the bowl of an electric stand mixer, fitted with whisk attachment whisk butter and sugar on medium high speed until very pale and fluffy or about five minutes.
  • Be sure to stop at least once and scrape the bowl.
  • With the mixer off, add in cocoa powder, vanilla and salt.
  • Turn mixer on low and blend for about 30 seconds.
  • One tablespoon at a time add in heavy cream.
  • Once all cream has been added and mixture is mostly combined, turn off the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  • Now turn the mixer onto medium-high to high and whisk for 3-5 minutes or until mixture is lighter and fluffier. The frosting will be shiny and seem to have many large air bubbles throughout and this is exactly what we are going for. (You can smooth those out on the cake if so desired.)

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Reader Comments

  1. Hi Amanda
    Thank you for your Avocado Choc cake! Question: avocados are not really available year round in Sydney, Australia
    They are in season now and I was wondering if I can freeze them to make the cake later?

  2. Hi Amanda, this sounds delicious! Do you think it would work in a bundt pan? It would be a lovely presentstion.

  3. I really don’t like avocados. Can’t you taste any hint of the avocado flavor in this cake? If so, what can I use as a substitute?

  4. I followed the recipe but used 1/2 c of the unsweetened cocoa powder blended in 1/2 c coffee instead of 1/4 c cocoa powder in 3 Tbsp hot coffee. Chopping the chocolate and melting it seemed like too much trouble so I didn’t do that. I also added 1/2 tsp more cinnamon and 4 eggs mixed into the wet ingredients, because I thought the recipe must have just forgotten the eggs. It worked out wonderfully, even with gluten-free flour. I baked it in 10 inch cake rounds instead of 9 inch ones, so it baked faster, taking only 35 min. It was the talk of the birthday party. Thanks for the recipe!

  5. Hi Amanda,
    Question, are we supposed to use wet brown sugar or the cane brown sugar? I want to try this recipe out for my dad this weekend as it is his birthday!

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