Off Topic: Best Bet Chocolate recipe

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For those of you who have quit the chocolate - try this best bet

recipe out by Robyn

9.4: Chocolate Cake

Robyn

This is a great recipe for showing family and friends that you can

still have chocolate cake! Most people I've given this to don't even

realise that it's GFDF. I wouldn't recommend having this too often, as

it's still quite rich, but it's brilliant for special occasions,

birthdays etc. I've attached a picture of the one I made for my

husband's 50th birthday, baked in a ring and filled with mixed summer

fruits (just defrosted a bag from the freezer)

Ingredients:

6oz Gluten-free flour

3 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder

1 & 1/4 level teaspoons baking powder

I level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

& #65405; teaspoon xanthan gum

2 oz fruit sugar

1 level tablespoon black treacle

1 level tablespoon date syrup (don't worry if you don't have this -you can

increase the fruit sugar)

2 eggs

5 fl oz ordinary olive oil

6 fl oz rice or nut milk

Put all the dry ingredients in a food processor and mix together for 10

seconds. Add the liquid ingredients and process for 30 seconds, scraping

down the sides once or twice so everything is mixed. Pour into either 2

lined and greased 18cm sandwich tins or a greased, metal ring-mould.

Bake in

the oven gas mark 3 or electric 325F for about 45 minutes, until the

centre

feels springy when pressed. Cool for a few minutes then turn out carefully

and remove paper if used.

If using sandwich tins, sandwich with jam. Or fruit.

Easy (but slightly naughty) icing: put a few tablespoons of rice or

nut milk

in a small bowl, warm to boiling point in a microwave, add a few

squares of

good-quality cooking chocolate (I use Green and Black), leave for a minute

then stir well - should make a chocolate sauce which will thicken as it

cools. Either pour over while still warm and allow to drizzle down, or

cool

and spread on the top thinly.

Great with sliced strawberries/raspberries etc.

If baked in a ring, it also works brilliantly if turned out while

still hot,

with the chocolate sauce poured over the top, and served like a steamed

sponge pudding.

This cake is quite chocolatey and not very sweet - alter the amount of

fruit

sugar to suit you. It makes a very soft, spongy cake, with a texture more

like a steamed sponge than a sponge.