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With Christmas fast approaching (SAY WHAT) I thought I’d get the gold, glitter vibes going with this rich chocolate cake infused with Percol’s Classic Italiano Coffee and studded with chunks of seasonal pears. This could make a wonderful festive treat or simply a stunning dessert for an autumnal end to a meal.
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil (I used LucyBee)
- 75g dark chocolate (I used Raw Halo)
- 75g dates, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes (I used Whitworths)
- 75g cooked apples
- 100ml almond milk (I used Alpro)
- 2 teaspoons Percol Classic Italiano Coffee, dissolved in 1 tablespoon boiling water then cooled
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200g oat flour (I whizzed up oats in my Nutri Ninja)
- 50g stevia (I used Natvia)
- 3 tablespoons cacao or cocoa powder (I used Creative Nature)
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pear, peeled and diced
For the chocolate frosting –
- 50g melted dark chocolate
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons smooth almond or cashew butter
- 1 tablespoon cacao/cocoa powder
- Dried pear crisps, to decorate (I used Nim’s Fruit Crisps)
Get baking!
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and grease and line a 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin.
- Gently melt the coconut oil and chocolate and leave to cool slightly.
- Place the soaked dates, apples, almond milk, coffee, egg, vanilla and cooled melted chocolate in a blender or food processor and whizz up until smooth.
- Add in the oat flour, coconut sugar, cacao/cocoa powder, ginger and baking powder and whizz again to form a batter. Fold in the pears.
- Spoon out into the tin and smooth out evenly. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until risen and firmed up. Leave to cool in the tin.
- Beat together the frosting ingredients then spread over the cooled cake. Decorate with pear crisps, slice and serve! I also sprayed over edible gold glitter for a special touch 🙂
Check out my other recipes working with Percol Coffee over here 🙂