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  • Butter and Flour Free Chocolate Cake

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    Butter and Flour Free Chocolate Cake
    Prep: 10 min Cook: 40 min Servings: 16
    by Hungry Jenny
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    This contains chickpeas which might sound strange but actually works really well! It doesn't taste particularly 'chickpea'-like and is still incredibly moist despite having no butter. You can easily make this completely gluten-free by using gluten-free baking powder too. This was made in an 8" square tin.

    Ingredients

    • For an 8" square tin:
    • 200g melted chocolate
    • 300g chickpeas
    • 3 eggs
    • 9 tbsp sugar
    • Half tsp baking powder (gluten-free if needed)

    Directions

    1. Mash or blend the chickpeas as much as possible.
    2. Beat in the eggs til smooth.
    3. Mix in the sugar and baking powder.
    4. Pour in the melted chocolate and mix well.
    5. Transfer to a 8-inch cake tin and bake at 175 degrees C for about 40 minutes.

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    • Lauren CoffeeMuffins
      Lauren CoffeeMuffins
      This does sound strange, but in an intriguing - want to try it sort of way. What an interesting idea, can't wait to try it!
      • kathy vegas
        kathy vegas
        Doesn't sound strange at all, I've been making a very similar version of this for years (mine uses cocoa instead of the melted chocolate and a splash of orange juice to help the baking powder rise a bit). And I wizz my chickpeas in a food processor to puree them, but this is basically the same thing. It really does taste like fudgy brownies, people are always amazed that there's no flour in these...and they're so healthy, too!
        • Daddy Antonio Soler
          Daddy Antonio Soler
          This looks really good!
          • Rosario Vitale
            Rosario Vitale
            sensational
            • Eileen
              Eileen
              I love this recipe, my husband and I ate the whole pan in two days, now I'm trying them with shredded coconut in them.
              1 reply
              • Hungry Jenny
                Hungry Jenny
                Mm, chocolate and coconut is a great combo, sounds fantastic! You might also enjoy my Light Chocolate Coconut Squares, uploaded elsewhere on this site (minus the chickpeas ;-) x
              • carl
                carl
                hey everyone
                • Princess Kahani
                  Princess Kahani
                  gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
                  1 reply
                  • Hungry Jenny
                    Hungry Jenny
                    Lol, glad you like it! x

                  Comments

                  • ShaleeDP
                    ShaleeDP
                    This looks awesome. hope i can recreate this :)
                    • nükhet kuzuoğlu
                      nükhet kuzuoğlu
                      thanks a lot for this recipe. what can i add if i put less chocolate?
                      1 reply
                      • Hungry Jenny
                        Hungry Jenny
                        Hi Nukhet

                        You're welcome! Hm, I'm not sure actually, if you were wanting to make it less chocolately-tasting, perhaps subbing in half amount of puréed fruit like raspberry or strawberry? Or if you're wanting to cut back on the fat/sugar content, then perhaps sub in some healthier olive oil?

                        However, I'm not entirely sure that either would work because it might be messing up the structure of the cake a bit - but you've now given me inspiration to play around this recipe so I'll post up an alternative recipe soon if the experimentation goes well!

                        Hungry Jenny x
                      • Hungry Jenny
                        Hungry Jenny
                        Hi Catherine, yeh I tested this on my hungry aikido guys yesterday and they all wolfed it down! I think this was my first (successful) attempt at flourless cake so would love to see what recipes you have if you've got any to share!
                        • Catherine Pappas
                          Catherine Pappas
                          I love flourless cake, but I've never tried a butter free. I should try it! This cake looks and sounds delicious! Cheers~
                          1 reply
                        • Hungry Jenny
                          Hungry Jenny
                          Hi Kathy, I had to mash the chickpeas because I haven't got round to buying a blender yet! Will have to try out your version one day :-)
                          • Hungry Jenny
                            Hungry Jenny
                            Thanks Lauren, yes I thought it was really strange when I first heard of it but it actually does taste quite chocolatey and not too much of chickpeas :-)

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