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Hi all
Here's a recipe thats cobbled together from one carrot cake and chocolate brownies. I made it up
Its ideal for anyone allergic to dairy products (of course some people consider eggs dairy, but I dont) who misses out on regular chocolate cake.
Here goes:
Ingredients:
200g self raising flour (white is lighter)
50g ground almonds
200g vegetable oil or sunflower oil
200g caster sugar
2 or three large table spoonfuls of coacoa powder (the proper stuff not drinking chocolate which as added milk)
3 large eggs or 4 medium
2 firm pears, peeled deseeded and grated.
Greese and line large round spring based cake tin.
Beat oil and sugar together hard until it becomes thicker, add one egg at a time beating to incorperate. Sieve flour and cocoa powder into mixture and fold carefully until lovely and brown, it may be quite heavy and thick by now. Add ground almonds and again fold. Add grated pear which should loosen the mixture,( if not add small amount of warm water.) Pour into cake tin.
Cook at Gas mark 4 for an hour or thereabouts, in the middle of the oven, until it is set, but watch the top may burn, if you think it will, cover with foil or greaseproof.
Its very moist and darkly satisfying, but not too sweet. (If you prefer a sweeter one, you could add some *frosting to the top or another 50g of sugar into the cake)
For frosting I use dairy free pure spead or vitalite dairy free and icing sugar with a spoonful of cocoa powder.
Enjoy!
PS any feedback appreciated as I made the recipe up, would love to know what others think!
Here's a recipe thats cobbled together from one carrot cake and chocolate brownies. I made it up
Its ideal for anyone allergic to dairy products (of course some people consider eggs dairy, but I dont) who misses out on regular chocolate cake.
Here goes:
Ingredients:
200g self raising flour (white is lighter)
50g ground almonds
200g vegetable oil or sunflower oil
200g caster sugar
2 or three large table spoonfuls of coacoa powder (the proper stuff not drinking chocolate which as added milk)
3 large eggs or 4 medium
2 firm pears, peeled deseeded and grated.
Greese and line large round spring based cake tin.
Beat oil and sugar together hard until it becomes thicker, add one egg at a time beating to incorperate. Sieve flour and cocoa powder into mixture and fold carefully until lovely and brown, it may be quite heavy and thick by now. Add ground almonds and again fold. Add grated pear which should loosen the mixture,( if not add small amount of warm water.) Pour into cake tin.
Cook at Gas mark 4 for an hour or thereabouts, in the middle of the oven, until it is set, but watch the top may burn, if you think it will, cover with foil or greaseproof.
Its very moist and darkly satisfying, but not too sweet. (If you prefer a sweeter one, you could add some *frosting to the top or another 50g of sugar into the cake)
For frosting I use dairy free pure spead or vitalite dairy free and icing sugar with a spoonful of cocoa powder.
Enjoy!
PS any feedback appreciated as I made the recipe up, would love to know what others think!
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