Should you be having no luck in obtaining flour and want to bake a chocolate cake for Easter Sunday tea the following recipe is both fat and flour free and very tasty.
Ingredients.
4 eggs, separated
150g icing sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
225g ground almonds
1 teaspoon baking powder.
Whisk egg yolks and icing sugar 'til pale and creamy, fold in cocoa. Whisk egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff. Fold whites, almonds and sifted baking powder into the egg mixture in batches.
Put mixture in a 20cm buttered loose-bottomed cake tin and bake for 35 minutes at gas mark 6.
Because it's Easter I've added a topping of icing sugar and cocoa blended with a little milk.
H.I. used to make this cake. It is better than the flour equivalent. She used to use good dark chocolate.
ReplyDeleteHi Tom, how are you doing? Do you have access to outdoor space in this glorious weather? HI's use of quality chocolate sounds mouthwateringly good.
DeleteI go to my rural workshop every day. I am lucky. What I need now is something to do. I've lost about £20 thousand worth because the various new customers have had to close their gardens to the public and cannot afford it. Oh well, I still feel lucky.
DeleteThank you, Rosemary. I will be making this today.
ReplyDeleteDear Maybe, I hope you are pleased with the result. It is one of my regular bakes.
DeleteHope you are safe and well !
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter
parsnip
We are being VERY careful, Parsnip, as I hope you are too. We are both in the 'vulnerable' group and our family live hundreds of miles away. As mentioned in the post, our younger friends are looking after us wonderfully well while we try in vain to book a delivery slot from the supermarkets.
DeleteEaster good wishes to all two legs and four.
Oh, I might give this a whirl! Happy Easter Rosemary!
ReplyDeleteIt's easy and tasty and healthy - if you don't count the sugar content!
DeleteEaster greetings to you, Pip. Ours holiday is good, with lovely weather, but very quiet!
Well done. I love that so many are making due with what they have and doing the best with those ingredients.
ReplyDeleteThis cake is a good one for you because it involves quite a bit of whisking!
DeleteThat's fun! Whisking is fun.
DeleteIt sounds and looks delicious, but fat free it is definitely not - almonds contain fat (as I am sure you know). But hey, who cares!
ReplyDeleteYou are right, of course, but as I take a second slice I'm telling myself that nut fats are good for me!
DeleteHello. I too am in the group of people not to go out for three months and, therefore, depending on others - strangers in my case - to do the shopping. Fortunately flour arrived so was able to have lemon cake for Easter. I have now been able to secure a regular supermarket slot for weekly deliveries. It won't start till the end of April but I'm ever so excited that it exists. I would never previously have imagined I could be excited about a shopping delivery!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter and Best Wishes.
Hello Lucy, and well done for getting a food delivery slot, it's more than I have managed!
DeleteThere are always ways to put together something yummy even without the norm. Take care!
ReplyDeleteI make this cake quite often, but minus the topping.
DeleteHope all is well on Sherlock Street.
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