Wheat allergies and intolerance are becoming more and more common. That’s no reason to stop baking however. This cake has a really rich, moist centre with a slightly crunchy firmer crust, giving it an almost brownie-esque feel. As with all chocolate recipes I would recomend using hash rather than bud or leaf for this. Enjoy it with some mates for afternoon tea. Bottoms up!
Ingredients
- 200g high quality dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa)
- 150g cannabutter
- 5 Medium egss, separated
- 150g caster sugar
- 3 tablespoons strong instant coffee (the drink, not the dried granules!)
- 100g ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Method
Firstly preheat your oven to 180C and line a 9″ circular cake tin with baking paper.
Over a very gentle heat melt the butter and chocolate in a saucepan. It is worth breaking the chocolate up into small pieces. Keep over the low heat until completely melted and well combined, then turn the heat off.
In a separate bowl beat the egg whites until they are stiff. You wil need an electric hand whisk to do this, otherwise it will take you forever! You know that the whites are stiff enough when you can tip the bowl on its side and the whites stay put. Add half the sugar to the whites and beat this together.
In another bowl add the other half of he sugar and beat together with the egg yolks until thick and creamy.
Add the yolk mix to the melted chocolate together with the coffee. Gently stir all the ingredients together.
Gently fold the egg whites into this mixture. You must take care to ensure that the air you have beaten into the eggs whites is not lost.
Mix together the ground almonds, cocoa powder and baking powder throughly. Very slowly add this to the chocolate mix. Make sure that the mixes are well combined but do not beat as his will make the mixture lose some of the air.
Pour into the prepared baking tin and bake for about 40-45 minutes or until you can insert a skewer into the centre of he cake that comes out clean.
Once cool dust with some more cocoa powder and serve!