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I have a friend who has celiac disease, and he moaned to me that he'd never eat another chocolate cake. So I did this gluten-free recipe for him. It's my go-to dessert right now; it's like a fudgy brownie. Ingredients:
2/3 cup regular olive oil, plus more for greasing cake pan |
6 tablespoons good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder |
1/2 cup boiling water |
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
1 1/2 cups almond meal or 3/4 cup plus 1 tbsp. all-purpose flour |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
pinch of salt |
1 cup superfine sugar |
3 large eggs |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a 9-inch springform cake pan with a little oil and line base of pan with parchment paper.
2. Sift cocoa powder into a bowl and whisk in boiling water until you have a smooth, chocolaty, still runny (but only just) paste. Whisk in vanilla extract and set aside to let cool.
3. In a small bowl, combine almond meal (or flour) with baking soda and a pinch of salt.
4. Put sugar, olive oil and eggs into bowl of a freestanding mixer with a paddle attachment (or use other bowl and whisk). Beat vigorously until mixture is pale-primrose, aerated, thickened and creamy, about 3 minutes.
5. Turn down mixer speed a little and beat in cocoa mixture. Slowly add almond-meal mixture.
6. Turn off mixer. Scrape down sides of bowl and stir a little with a spatula. Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake until sides of cake are set and very center, on top, still looks slightly damp, 40 to 45 minutes. A cake tester should come up mainly clean but with a few sticky chocolate crumbs clinging to it.
7. Let cake cool in its pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Ease sides of cake with a small metal spatula and spring cake out of pan. Leave to cool completely or serve warm with ice cream.
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