Ingredients
- 2 cups of stewed apples (Ettrick Gardens)
 - 2 1/2 cups flour
 - 1/4 cup cacao elixir (coKo Lounge)
 - 2/3 cup of good dark chocolate -cut into chunks
 - 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
 - 2 tsp baking powder
 - 1/4 tsp salt
 - 1/3 - 1/2 cup olive oil (Dunford Grove)
 - 1/4 cup almond mylk (suggest Ronia & Pippi)
 - 2 Tbsp muscovado sugar
 - 1 tsp vanilla essence
 - 3 tsp psyllium husk
 - 1/3 cup water
 - Icing:
 - 1 Tbsp icing sugar
 - 2 Tbsp cacao elixir (coKo Lounge)
 
Warm Chocolate Elixir Cake (VG)
        Method
- Firstly, stew the apples: Peel, core, and cut the apples, then place them in a pot and half cover them with water
 - Bring boil and simmer until the apples have gone very soft
 - Cool and measure out 2 cups for the cake and freeze the rest
 - These are great to have in the freezer, it has many uses
 - Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C
 - Line and grease a 23cm cake tin
 - Put water into a small bowl then add the psyllium husk and leave to thicken
 - Using a large bowl add the stewed apple, oil, vanilla and sugar and mix
 - In another bowl mix in flour, cacao powder, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate chunks and salt
 - Fold the flour mix into the wet stewed apple mix, then fold in the almond mylk & psyllium husk
 - Pour the cake batter into the tin, spreading evenly
 - Place in the pre-heated oven and cook for about 20-25 minutes
 - Once the cake has been removed from the oven, mix the icing sugar and cacao elixir with 1-2 tbsp water and drizzle over the warm cake
 - Serve with your favourite ice cream or yoghurt
 
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Recipe by: Amy Dougherty