Chocolate cake with courgettes

desserts Baking sweet Swiss cuisine
Total: 1 hr 35 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegetarian

A moist, delicious and intensely flavoured chocolate cake, just as we love it. There is only one small difference: it is made with grated courgettes. Yes, you read that right: courgettes. This makes the cake seem light without detracting from the fabulous chocolate taste. Try it out. You're going to love it.

Recipe by:
Anita - Breakfast & Bowls

Ingredients

for 16 pieces

Courgettes
2  courgettes (approx. 400 g) finely grated
Batter
3  eggs
140 g coconut palm sugar
110 g coconut oil, melted
½ dl almond drink
2 tsp vanilla paste
120 g ground almonds
60 g wholegrain oat flour
50 g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sodium bicarbonate
100 g chocolate cubes
Glaze
1 ¼ dl coconut milk
200 g dark chocolate (64% cocoa), finely chopped

How it's done

Courgettes

Place the courgettes on a clean tea towel, squeeze out the liquid.

Batter

Mix the eggs, sugar, coconut oil, almond drink and vanilla paste in a bowl, stir in the courgette mixture.

Place the almonds and oat flour in a bowl. Sieve in the cocoa powder, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Add the chocolate cubes, mix and stir into the courgette mixture. Transfer the cake batter to the prepared tin.

To bake

Approx. 35 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Remove the cake from the tin, leave to cool on a platter.

Glaze

Heat the coconut milk in a pan. Remove the pan from the heat, stir in the chocolate, melt, allow to cool slightly. Spread the chocolate mixture on top of the cake. Chill the cake for approx. 30 mins., cut into slices.

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