- TM 31
Ingredients
Chocolate quinoa cake
- 120 g butter, cut into pieces, plus extra for greasing
- 170 g Red Quinoa
- 520 g water
- 4 eggs
- 80 g full cream milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
- 250 g caster sugar
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch sea salt
Peanut butter frosting
- 120 g cream cheese, cut into pieces
- 60 g Peanut Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
- 120 g icing sugar
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- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a cake tin (22 cm) with baking paper and set aside.
- Place quinoa and water into mixing bowl and cook 15 min/100°C/
"Counter-clockwise operation" /speed 1. - Drain any excess liquid from quinoa, by straining through simmering bakset. Transfer quinoa from simmering basket into a bowl and set aside to cool. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
- Place butter into mixing bowl and melt 2 min/60°C/speed 1.
- Add eggs, milk, vanilla bean paste, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and mix 5 sec/speed 5.
- Add reserved quinoa and blend 10 sec/speed 9.
- Pour mixture into prepared cake tin. Bake for 40-50 minutes (180°C) or until a skewer inserted into centre of cake comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
- Place cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla bean paste into mixing bowl and combine 10 sec/speed 4.
- Add icing sugar and combine 15 sec/speed 4. Spread frosting over cake and place into refrigerator to set for 10 minutes. Cut into pieces and serve.
Chocolate quinoa cake
Peanut butter frosting
Tip
This recipe makes a single layer cake. For a decadant dessert, double the cake ingredients and bake in 2 cake tins (22 cm) to create a layered cake (as per image). Double the frosting ingredients to frost both layers.
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