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By Natasha Minocha | Updated on June 13, 2025 20 Comments

Swedish Chocolate Cake

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If you’re craving a chocolate cake that’s rich, gooey, and incredibly easy to make, this Swedish chocolate cake is calling your name. With a fudgy center, crisp edges, this kladdkaka is a chocolate lover’s dream come true!

Swedish chocolate cake topped with powdered sugar and hazelnuts on a tray.
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  • What is Swedish Kladkaka?
  • Why You'll Love This Recipe
  • Reader Love❤️
  • Recipe Ingredients
  • How to Make Swedish Chocolate Cake
  • Top Tips
  • Serving the Swedish Chocolate Cake
  • More Delicious Chocolate Cakes
  • 📖 Recipe

What is Swedish Kladkaka?

Kladdkaka is a populare Swedish dessert. The English interpretation of it is "sticky or gooey cake". It is baked without baking powder and makes for a deliciously dense and fudge-like treat, almost like a cross between a gooey chocolate brownie and a chocolate lava cake.

This recipe has been adapted from the amazing Linda Limelino’s blog. It’s a firm favorite in our house for years now!

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Why You'll Love This Recipe

✨This cake is special! It’s so decadent, gooey, and soft, you will keep coming back for more!

✨The Swedish sticky chocolate cake is naturally gluten-free as it is flourless, which means that really all you will taste is dark chocolate, with a beautiful coffee aftertaste that just takes it to another level.

✨The Swedish chocolate cake is ridiculously simple to make. This flourless chocolate cake needs just 6 basic ingredients and no fancy technique.

✨Beautifully rustic yet elegant, this rich chocolate Swedish cake is easy to make ahead of time and is perfect for entertaining.

Reader Love❤️

5 stars

this was amazing, thanks for such a easy recipe! I'm new to baking and found it very simple to make!

5 stars

been making this swedish chocolate cake for almost all of the birthdays in my house, everyone loves it! thank you so much for this recipe

Recipe Ingredients

Chocolate: Use the best-quality chocolate you can get. Really, this is the cake you need that really good stuff for! I recommend 70% dark chocolate, though you could also make it with 55% dark chocolate. 

Butter: I used salted butter. If using unsalted butter, add a ¼ tsp of salt to the batter.

Eggs: They provide structure and stability to the cake. They also help in leavening as this recipe does not have any baking powder or baking soda.

Coffee: Strong brewed coffee enhances the deep chocolate flavor here.

Sugar: Regular granulated sugar works well.

Please see the recipe card for full information about ingredients and quantities.

How to Make Swedish Chocolate Cake

Step 1: Grease a 9″ spring-bottom pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 180 °C/350°F.

Step 2: Melt the chocolate and butter in a large bowl placed over a pan of simmering water. Once it's all melted, add the coffee and keep it aside. Let it cool for 5-10 minutes.

Step 3: In another bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla until light and doubled in volume.

Process of making Swedish Chocolate Cake | Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe

Step 4: Gently stir the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Pour into the prepared pan.

Step 5: Bake for about 40-50 minutes. It will get puffed up and then fall once it cools. Run a knife around the edges and let the cake cool completely.

Swedish Chocolate Cake in a cake pan.

Step 6: I let the cake cool in the pan and then refrigerate it for at least 2-3 hours before releasing it from the pan.

Step 7: Carefully remove the cake from the pan. Slice, serve, and enjoy!

Powdered sugar being sprinkled from a sieve on a chocolate cake.

Top Tips

  • Keep all the ingredients at room temperature. It makes everything mix together well and gives the cake the right texture.
  • Mix the egg-sugar mixture with the melted chocolate, gently so that the whipped-up mixture doesn’t deflate.
  • Getting the cake out of the pan is a teensy bit tricky. I recommend doing this once it is completely cooled, which can take a few hours. I prefer baking it a day before so that it sets well.
  • Cover the outside base of the tin with foil. Because you’re using a loose-bottom pan, drips and leaks are possible. It happens to me ALL the time! The foil catches them all and prevents a messy oven.
  • Line the tin with parchment paper for easy removal of the cake.
  • Since the kladdkaka doesn’t include any leavening agent like baking powder,  the cake will rise, then fall. So please don’t panic when it sinks!
  • You will not be able to test this cake with a toothpick as it is meant to be gooey in the center. When the edges of the Swedish cake seem a little set and the top gets puffy, but still has a bit of jiggle, it's time to take out the cake! It's better to have the cake slightly under-baked than overdone.
  • Use a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients for better and consistent results every time!
Chocolate cake topped with powdered sugar and hazelnuts.

Serving the Swedish Chocolate Cake

Getting the sticky Swedish chocolate cake out of the pan can be a tad tricky. Run a knife around the edges once the cake is out of the oven. Remove the cake from the pan once it is completely cooled, which can take a few hours. I prefer baking it a day before so that it sets well.

The 9-inch cake should comfortably serve 8 to 10 people, as this is a rich cake!

You can enjoy the Swedish chocolate cake while it’s still warm and indulge in its silky, sticky goodness. Serve it with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream. We really enjoy this cake when it’s been refrigerated for a few hours, preferably overnight. Chilling it makes the texture wickedly dense and fudgy.

A slice of Swedish kladdkaka with whipped cream on the side on a plate.

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Half the joy of cooking is sharing it with others. That’s why I’m always eager to hear from you. So go right ahead & drop a comment or reach out on Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, or Facebook. I hope you love this Swedish chocolate cake as much as we do!

📖 Recipe

Swedish chocolate cake topped with powdered sugar and hazelnuts on a tray.

Swedish Chocolate Cake

Natasha Minocha
If you’re craving a chocolate cake that’s rich, gooey, and incredibly easy to make, this Swedish chocolate cake is calling your name. With a fudgy center, crisp edges, this kladdkaka is a chocolate lover’s dream come true!
4.84 from 6 votes
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Prep Time 25 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Cooling Time 3 hours hrs
Total Time 4 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course Cakes, Dessert
Cuisine Swedish
Servings 10 servings
Calories 424 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 1 cup Butter I used salted butter
  • 8.8 oz 70% dark chocolate
  • 1/3 cup Brewed strong coffee 1/3 cup hot water + 1 tbsp coffee powder
  • 4 Eggs
  • 3/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Grease a 9″ spring bottom pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Pre heat the oven to 180 C.
  • Melt the chocolate and butter in a large bowl placed over a pan of simmering water. Once its all melted, add the coffee and keep it aside. Let the mixture cool for 5-10 minutes.
  • In another bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla until light and doubled in volume.
  • Gently stir the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake for about 40-50 minutes. It will get puffed up and then fall once it cools.
    Run a knife along the edges of the pan to loosen the cake.
  • Let the cake cool in the pan and then refrigerate it for at least 2-3 hours before releasing it from the pan.
  • Note : You will not be able to test this cake with a tooth pick as it is meant to be gooey in the center.

Notes

    • Keep all the ingredients at room temperature. It makes everything mix together well and gives the cake the right texture.
    • Mix the egg-sugar mixture with the melted chocolate, gently so that the whipped-up mixture doesn’t deflate.
    • Getting the cake out of the pan is a teensy bit tricky. I recommend doing this once it is completely cooled, which can take a few hours. I prefer baking it a day before so that it sets well.
    • Cover the outside base of the tin with foil. Because you’re using a loose-bottom pan, drips and leaks are possible. It happens to me ALL the time! The foil catches them all and prevents a messy oven.
    • Line the tin with parchment paper for easy removal of the cake.
    • Since the cake doesn’t include any leavening agent like baking powder,  the cake will rise, then fall. So please don’t panic when it sinks!
    • You will not be able to test this cake with a toothpick as it is meant to be gooey in the center. When the edges of the cake seem a little set and the top gets puffy, but still has a bit of jiggle, it's time to take out the cake! It's better to have the cake slightly under-baked than overdone.
    • Use a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients for better and consistent results.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 ServingCalories: 424kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 4gFat: 33gSaturated Fat: 20gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 120mgSodium: 191mgPotassium: 215mgFiber: 3gSugar: 24gVitamin A: 730IUCalcium: 35mgIron: 3mg
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Comments

  1. Sahitee K says

    March 15, 2021 at 4:23 pm

    5 stars
    this was amazing, thanks for such a easy recipe! I'm new to baking and found it very simple to make

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      March 15, 2021 at 4:49 pm

      I'm so glad to hear that, Sahitee! Welcome to the world of baking - there are lots of goodies ahead of you 🙂 Thanks for stopping by xx

      Reply
  2. elena says

    March 09, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    5 stars
    been making this swedish chocolate cake for almost all of the birthdays in my house, everyone loves it! thank you so much for this recipe

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      March 12, 2021 at 9:31 am

      I'm so happy to hear that, Elena! Thank you for stopping by xx

      Reply
  3. mohini chopra says

    February 23, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    5 stars
    Made this yesterday, turned out amazing. Was so easy

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      February 23, 2021 at 1:29 pm

      I'm so glad to hear that, Mohini! Thanks for stopping by 🙂

      Reply
  4. Anahat Kapoor says

    February 02, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    5 stars
    This is my go to chocolate cake! Soo good!

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      February 03, 2021 at 12:11 pm

      Its a huge favourite here too. So thrilled its your fave too! xoxo

      Reply
  5. Donna Marshall says

    January 28, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    What sugar should you use?

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      January 30, 2021 at 4:02 pm

      Hi Donna, please use regular white sugar here. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Tamanna says

    November 30, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    4 stars
    hey I put in 200 ml coffee by mistake 🙁 is there a way out ?

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      December 01, 2020 at 12:19 pm

      Hi Tamanna, I just saw your message. I hope the cake came out well. I would've suggested you bake it for a longer time or increase the quantity of other ingredients. Do let me know how this worked out for you! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Namita says

    September 11, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    Looks so tempting.. will surely try. Just curious, which is the binding ingredient.

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      September 12, 2020 at 2:37 pm

      Thank you, Namita!
      The eggs, along with chocolate and butter do the job of binding it together. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Shruti says

    August 09, 2020 at 4:09 am

    Hii.. Can i make this widout egg??

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      August 10, 2020 at 9:51 am

      Hi Shruti, I'm really not sure as I haven't tried it. 🙂

      Reply
  9. Isshu Mittal says

    July 30, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Thanks for sharing wonderful recipe. Seems so tempting. I will definitely try this. Well explained

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      July 31, 2020 at 10:01 am

      Thank you Isshu! Glad you like it 🙂

      Reply
  10. Karry says

    July 17, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    5 stars
    This has become a family favorite in our home! Thank you for sharing xx

    Reply
    • Natasha Minocha says

      July 18, 2020 at 3:29 pm

      So happy to hear that Karry! Thanks for following along!:)

      Reply
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