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This Instant Pot cake is an amazing chocolate dessert that you can whip up WITHOUT turning on your oven (or if you don't HAVE an oven)! It's Paleo, gluten-free, and dairy-free. Also suitable for AIP Diet Stage 2 reintros due to nuts (almond flour) and eggs.
If you're sick of getting dry chocolate cake, I have a solution for you. Because, well, who likes dry chocolate cake? Instead – make this Instant Pot cake.
You probably wouldn't expect that an Instant Pot electric pressure cooker can give you deliciously …. oh man…. how really do you say this without offending like 90% of the population that HATES the “m” word? Um, so the Huffington Post says I can say these words instead of the word I want to use:
- “not dry” (creative)
- “hydrated” (really…. hydrated? For a cake?)
- “good crumb” (that's a stretch)
- “spongy” (ok, that's a bit better but not quuuite what I'm going for)
- “divine” (I guess I'll take that one)
You get the idea, right? It ain't dry, and it tastes DIVINE 🙂
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Why Make an Instant Pot Cake
When I first heard of making desserts in the Instant Pot, my first thought was “Why would you do that?”. I mean, cakes in the oven work just fine!
But as I did more research and made them myself, I realized there are some advanta