It's easy to cook, just add all ingredients and bake away! And the best part is it pretty healthy

Paleo Chocolate Ganache Cake

It's easy to cook, just add all ingredients and bake away! And the best part is it pretty healthy. Just restrain yourself from eating most of the cake when it comes out of the oven!

Ingredients

• 1 cup coconut sugar
• 1 cup almond meal
• 1/3 cup boiling water
• 1/3 cup raw cacao powder
• 150 g butter
• 100 g raw dark chocolate
• 4 eggs separated

Ganache

• 100 g raw dark chocolate
• 1 cup coconut cream

• Equipment

  • 1 22cm round cake pan
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 heatproof bowl
  • 2 saucepan
  • 1 electric mixer

  • Method

    • STEP 1Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius. Line a 22cm cake pan with baking paper.
    • STEP 2Mix the raw cacao powder and hot water in a large mixing bowl until smooth.
    • STEP 3In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and butter together. Remove from heat.
    • STEP 4In a large mixing bowl, combine the the melted chocolate with the coconut sugar, almond meal and egg yolks. Stir until well combined.
    • STEP 5Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold egg whites in to the chocolate mix carefully until just mixed through.
    • STEP 6Transfer the batter in to the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour. Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
    • STEP 7To make the ganache, combine the raw chocolate and coconut cream in a small saucepan on low heat, stirring until smooth.
    • STEP 8To serve, drizzle the cake with chocolate ganache and add shredded coconut or raspberries.

    • Notes

      You can swap butter with coconut oil.