Gluten Free Zucchini Chocolate Cake
This gluten-free zucchini chocolate cake uses whole grain rice flour, no oil but nut puree and oriental spices. Dates replace household sugar and apples can be used unpeeled. The ingredients provide fibre, vitamins and micronutrients. And they make sure this chocolate cake tastes quite simply quite ingenious!
Equipment
- 20 cm ⌀ round baking pan
Ingredients
- 1 small (120g) apple or 100 g unsweetended apple sauce
- 120 g dates
- 230 ml water
- 280 g zucchini
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tbsp almond butter 30 g e.g. homemade
- 100 g buckwheat flour
- 80 g rice flour whole grain
- 50 g cocoa powder organic and fair trade
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
Optionales Topping:
- 20 g dark vegan chocolate optional refied sugar free
- 1 Tbsp edible flowers dried
Instructions
- If you don't have apple puree yet, start preparing this first with a sweet apple. Cut the apple into small pieces and boil them with a little water until they are soft. For the version with the ready-made apple puree, pour 230 ml of boiling water over the dates and let them stand for 15 minutes. Blend the dates with the water and the apple puree with a hand blender or mixer.
- In the meantime, prepare the other ingredients. Line the baking pan with baking paper and grease the edges with a little canola oil, if necessary.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ºC (356 ºF) convection and place a rack in the center of the oven.
- Finely grate the zucchini. Mix the grated zucchini in a bowl with the apple puree-date mixture, the almond paste and the apple cider vinegar.
- Add the dry ingredients (buckwheat flour, rice flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cardamom powder) and mix everything well.
- Pour the dough into the prepared baking pan and bake in the middle of the pre-heated oven at 180 °C (356 ºF) for 40 to 45 minutes.
- Optional: decorate with melted (sugar-free) vegan chocolate and deco blossoms.
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Notes
Zucchini: This recipe is ideal to use zucchini that do not meet the "zucchini ideal image", but are grown too crooked, too round or too twisted.
Apple puree: You can buy a ready-made one. Best to use an organic, non-sweetened one in a glass jar.
Cocoa: Note that not all organic cocoa is automatically Fairtrade. I can highly recommend the cocoa powder of Fairafric from Ghana for taste, but also for ethical/social reasons.
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