Chocolate Apple Cake Recipe

Ingredients :

Preparation & cook time: 1 hour 10 minutes (plus cooling)

Serves 18

• 4 medium apples (600g)

• ¾ cup (110g) potato flour

• ¾ cup (120g) brown rice flour

• ¼ cup (25g) cocoa powder

• 1 cup (220g) caster sugar

• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

• ¼ cup (30g) linseed meal

• 4 eggs, beaten lightly

• 1 cup (250ml) vegetable oil

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

chocolate icing:

• 1 cup (160g) pure icing sugar

• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

• 2 tablespoons apple juice, approximately

Method :

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced, Grease 20cm x 30cm lamington pan; line base with baking paper, extending paper 5cm over long sides.

2. Peel apples; grate coarsely. Chop grated apple finely.

3. Sift dry ingredients into large bowl; stir in apple, meal, eggs, oil and extract, Pour mixture into pan.

4. Bake cake about 45 minutes. Turn, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.

5. Meanwhile, make chocolate icing.
   To make chocolate icing, sift icing sugar and cocoa powder into small bowl; stir in enough juice to make a thick icing.

6. Spread cold cake with chocolate icing.

Baking Tips Baking Tip : Use a hot dry knife to cut the cake. Storage : Cake can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days. Un-iced cake is suitable to freeze for up to three months.

Food Facts & Glossary of Baking Ingredients potato flour made from cooked potatoes that have been dried and ground. brown rice flour is gluten-free flour made from ground brown rice; retains the outer bran layer of the grain, containing fiber and essential oils. cocoa powder also called unsweetened cocoa. Dried, roasted, then ground cocoa beans (cacao seeds). caster sugar is superfine or finely granulated table sugar. bicarbonate of soda is also called baking or carb soda. linseed meal is ground linseed (flax seeds). Available from health-food stores and in the health-food section of some supermarkets. vanilla extract is vanilla beans that have been submerged in water. Vanilla essence is not a suitable substitute. pure icing sugar is also known as confectioners' sugar or powdered sugar; has no added corn flour.

√  gluten-free    √  wheat-free    √  yeast-free    √  dairy-free