Lily's Mint Chocolate + Pomegranate Cake - gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free

Since I can remember, I've always had a sweet tooth. As I child I would carefully ration out my Halloween candy to last throughout the year. I liked them all--dum dums, tootsie rolls, and even smarties. But my favorites were anything with chocolate. Those would always disappear first.

Now that I'm older and much more conscious about the food I consume, those childhood chocolate bars are far and few between. Luckily I recently learned about Lily's, a chocolate bar company with no sugar added and instead sweetened with stevia. In the past I hadn't enjoyed stevia sweetened treats as they tended to have a strange aftertaste. So naturally I was apprehensive when I first tried Lily's, but to my surprise there was no odd flavor but instead an honestly delicious chocolate bar!

Lily's recently came out with a stevia sweetened baking bar and asked me to try it out, so I came up with this mint chocolate and pomegranate cake. The baking bar melted, baked and even made chocolate curls like a dream, without a hint that this cake was baked without any refined sugar. As a plus, it's also gluten free and dairy free to fit a variety of dietary restrictions.