Preparation Time: 15 - 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 8
Allergy Information: Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Dairy Free, Vegetarian, Vegan
Ingredients
- FOR THE CAKE:
- 50g Lucy Bee Coconut Oil, melted, plus extra for greasing
- 100g brown rice flour (or buckwheat or gluten free plain flour)
- 50g cacao powder
- 150g light brown soft sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. gluten free baking powder
- 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
- A pinch of salt
- 100g plain yoghurt*
- 1 egg*
- 100g courgette, grated and squeezed courgette, with any liquid squeezed out
- 100ml hot water
- FOR THE GANACHE:
- 100g 80% dark chocolate
- 1 tbsp. Lucy Bee Coconut Oil
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170C, 325F, gas mark 3.
- Grease a loaf tin with Lucy Bee Coconut Oil.
- FOR THE CAKE:
- In a mixing bowl, add the flour, cacao powder, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt and stir together with a wooden spoon.
- Add the Lucy Bee Coconut Oil, yoghurt, egg and the courgette and mix this all together.
- Finally add the hot water and stir until everything is combined. Pour into the prepared cake tin. Bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then place it on a wire rack.
- FOR THE GANACHE:
- Place a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Add the chocolate and Lucy Bee Coconut Oil to the bowl and gently melt, stirring until smooth. Remove from the heat.
- Pour the ganache over the top of the cooled cake and let it set before decorating - we added edible flowers but you could use chocolate shavings, pistachios or whatever takes your fancy.
- *TIP: To make this cake vegan or dairy free, swap the yoghurt to a suitable vegan yoghurt and use half of a mashed banana instead of the egg, making sure the chocolate is also vegan.
Enjoy!
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