Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Name: Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters almond meal or 3/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 3 larges eggs; 158 milliliters regular olive oil, plus more for greasing cake pan; 1 pinch Pinch of salt; 237 milliliters superfine sugar; 6 Tbsps good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 118 milliliters boiling water

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Chocolate Olive Oil Cake a try. One portion of this dish contains around 5g of protein, 20g of fat, and a total of 273 calories. This recipe serves 12. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up almond meal, regular olive oil, vanillan extract, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325F. Grease a 9-inch springform cake pan with a little oil and line base of pan with parchment paper.

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Cooking Oil

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Baking Paper

Cake Form

Oven

Sift cocoa powder into a bowl and whisk in boiling water until you have a smooth, chocolaty, still runny (but only just) paste.

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Cocoa Powder

Water

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Whisk

Bowl

Whisk in vanilla extract and set aside to let cool.

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Vanilla Extract

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Whisk

In a small bowl, combine almond meal (or flour) with baking soda and a pinch of salt.

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Almond Flour

Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Put sugar, olive oil and eggs into bowl of a freestanding mixer with a paddle attachment (or use other bowl and whisk). Beat vigorously until mixture is pale-primrose, aerated, thickened and creamy, about 3 minutes.

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Olive Oil

Sugar

Egg

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Blender

Whisk

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Turn down mixer speed a little and beat in cocoa mixture. Slowly add almond-meal mixture.

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Almonds

Cocoa Powder

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Turn off mixer. Scrape down sides of bowl and stir a little with a spatula.

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Bowl

Pour batter into prepared cake pan.

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Cake Form

Bake until sides of cake are set and very center, on top, still looks slightly damp, 40 to 45 minutes. A cake tester should come up mainly clean but with a few sticky chocolate crumbs clinging to it.

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Chocolate

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Oven

Let cake cool in its pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Ease sides of cake with a small metal spatula and spring cake out of pan. Leave to cool completely or serve warm with ice cream.

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Ice Cream