Real Food Festival» Recipes http://realfoodfestival.com.au Taste, Learn, Laugh Tue, 21 May 2013 10:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Chia seed chocolate cake http://realfoodfestival.com.au/1788/chia-seed-chocolate-cake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chia-seed-chocolate-cake http://realfoodfestival.com.au/1788/chia-seed-chocolate-cake/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:56:27 +0000 Julie S http://realfoodfestival.com.au/?p=1788

At the Real Food Festival, Tania Hubbard from the Gluten Free Grain Free Co. demonstrated this delicious gluten-free chocolate cake:

Chia seed chocolate cake

This is an amazing cake – moist, chocolatey, high in fibre and protein and just super yummy.

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons chia seeds, soaked in 1 cup of water for 15 minutes
  • ½ cup raw cocoa
  • 125g softened butter
  • 5 medium to large eggs
  • 1 cup (175g) almond meal
  • 1 cup coconut palm sugar (or your choice of sugar)
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon bicarb

Note: You can substitute coconut oil or olive oil for the butter

Method

Preheat oven to 180C

Line a spring form cake tin with non-stick baking paper

Soak chia seeds in 1 cup of water for 15 minutes, stirring regularly

Place all the ingredients in a bowl

Whisk to combine well and break up any lumps (at least 1 minute)

Pour into lined cake tin

Bake in oven for 30-35 minutes or until it bounces back when pressed in middle

Let the cake cool for 5-10 minutes in the tin

Finish cooling on a wire cooling rack

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