Almond Flour Chocolate Cake

This is a chocolate cake which provides sweet chocolate notes combined with texture and moistness in ever bite! Except instead of normal flours we have used almond meal. A great healthy alternative to flour which caters to the gluten intolerants!

Serves 12

Prep - 10 minutes

Cooking time - 45 minutes

Ingredients - 10

Dry Ingredients:

2 cups almond meal

1/3 cocoa powder

2 tsp instant coffee powder (or 2 coffee shots)

1 tsp baking powder

Wet Ingredients:

3 eggs

1/4 cup maple syrup

1 tbsp vanilla essense

1 1/2 cups dark chocolate bits

100 grams unsalted butter

1/4 cup olive oil

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius

2. Grease a cake tin/line cake tin

3. Add all wet ingredients into a bowl

4. Whisk ingredients together

5. Add dry ingredients and stir until combined

About/Tips:

If you prefer more texture you can choose to use 1 cup almond meal and 1 cup polenta instead of 2 cups almond meal.