Chocolate and Plum Cake

Name: Chocolate and Plum Cake
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 57 grams cocoa powder; 57 grams dairy-free chocolate, nibbed; 170 grams dairy-free margarine (we used Pure); 170 grams dark muscovado sugar; 3 mediums eggs; 2 level tsp gluten and wheat-free baking powder; 6 ripe fresh plums, stoned; 57 grams each rice flour, buckwheat flour and rolled oats, lightly pulverised in a food processor

Chocolate and Plum Cake is a gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian dessert. One serving contains 263 calories, 4g of protein, and 15g of fat. This recipe serves 10. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you have eggs, cocoa powder, rice flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4.Beat the spread with the sugar in a mixer till soft and creamy.

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Spread

Sugar

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Blender

Oven

Add the cocoa powder.Purée three of the plums in a food processor and add them to the mix.

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Cocoa Powder

Plum

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Food Processor

Add the eggs, one at a time, each with a spoonful of the flour mix.Chop the three remaining plums into fairly small pieces.With a wooden spoon, fold in the remains of the flour, the baking powder, chocolate nibs and the plums into the mixture.Grease a loose bottomed 15cm cake tin, or line it if it doesn’t have a loose bottom.Spoon in the mixture and bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.Cool for a few minutes in the tin then turn out onto a rack.When cooled to room temperature, you can split the cake horizontally and fill with a good layer of plum jam.

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Baking Powder