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A Donna Hay one bowl wonder – I find her cakes so easy to make.
A gluten free cake that we cook a lot, with luxury ingredients we now bulk up on - almond meal/flour, dark chocolate and eggs. I can make this very quickly - no need to wait for butter to soften, or separate eggs, and one bowl!
This has been a winner at school cake stalls too - everyone loves a gluten free cake.
I like it stores in the fridge – it is meant to - so it keeps well, and we have little slivers, over time, happily.
Serves 12. V. GF. Fridges and freezes well.
Pictured: Flourless chocolate cake with almond meal
Ingredients
- 350g good quality cooking chocolate 70%, chopped
- 185g unsalted butter, chopped
- 6 eggs
- 220g / 1 cup brown sugar
- 60ml / ¼ cup milk
- 120g / 1 cup almond meal (ground almonds) or substitute favourite nut meal
Method
Preheat oven to 190 °C/ 170 °C fan forced.
Line the base and sides of a 22cm springform cake tin with non-stick baking paper.
Place butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat and melt gently – stirring to make sure the bottom doesn’t burn. Take off the heat to cool slightly as soon as it is all melted.
In a large mixing bowl, throw in the rest of the ingredients. Whisk well with a hand beater until mixed.
Slowly pour in the chocolate mixture and with a hand whisk blend until smooth.
Spoon mixture into the prepared tin.
Importantly – cover tightly with foil and seal well. Even double cover as it needs to be tight fitting or else it will cook more slowly.
Bake 40 minutes.
If it doesn’t look cooked through - it should even have a few cracks – keep cooking until it is. It may mean the foil wasn’t tight enough, so add another piece of foil – give it another 5- 10 minutes, at intervals. It may end up a little denser with the extra cooking, but it will still be delicious which is why this recipe is so good.
Once cooked, remove the foil and let cake cool in the tin on a rack.
Dust with cocoa to serve.
Store in the fridge and it can last for up to a week. Cover airtight well in a tin.
Dietary preferences
- Vegetarian
- Gluten-Free with ingredient checks
