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