Wholemeal Spelt Chocolate Orange Cake
1/3 C cocoa
125g butter
1 C raw sugar
2 eggs
1 Blood Orange, Zest (taking care to remove all pith)
Juice (add water to make 1 Cup of liquid)
2 tsp baking Soda
335g Wholemeal or Wholegrain Spelt flour
Sift Baking soda into the flour, to remove lumps. Mix well then leave the bowl aside.
Cream Butter and Sugar together. Add the first egg the mixer incorporate well before adding the second.
When the butter and egg mix is well combined add cocoa powder and zest. Mix well ensuring you scrape the bowl a couple of times.
Slowly fold in orange juice and flour, alternating until all ingredients are combined. This is a reasonably runny mix.
Pour batter into greased or lined loaf tin. Bake at 160C for around 60-80min. Do a skewer test at 60 minutes to check if it is cooked through. Once the skewer tests clean remove from the oven and allow to stand for around 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
7 comments:
Where's the chocolate? Cocoa doesn't count ;-)
I'm going to have to give this spelt flour a go. I think the wholegrain part keeps putting me off. According to my wierd logic wholegrain=dry. I have no idea where it came from but I never seem to get past it. Which is a bit silly because I know that wholegrain is so much better for you.
:-D
Well I guess you could grate some chocolate in it.. but with that amount of butter and actual chocolate.... you just might die looking at it.
For pure wholegrain I do prefer spelt.. it doesn't give the tough cheweyness that wholewheat does. That said I don't eat much in the way of white flour cakes so maybe I have just got used those types of things and forgotten. You'll have to send me an email lambasting me over wasting ingredients if you hate it... :-P
Belinda
I have a Mud Cake recipe that has 250g butter, 150g chocolate and 1/4 cup cocoa. Then there is the Chocolate Ganache I slather on top of the cake.
Trust me, I wouldn't come close to dying by looking at it.
I'm going shopping tomorrow, so I'll get the ingredients, make the cake on Thursday and send you an email, on Friday, describing how you poisoned me with all that healthy stuff.
:-D
I'll wait to hear the electronic gurgle as all that fibre hits your system.
Kind Regards
Belinda
Oh yummo! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I'm going to try it out this coming weekend because am trying the whole spelt thing but haven't got many good recipes yet. And I love that it's made with cocoa because we don't often have chocolate in the house (I gobble it up when we do) ;)
It's me again.
I did my shopping and came home with 3 blood oranges instead of 1, hopefully I'll remember to eat the other 2. I could only buy wholemeal spelt. The lady at the health food shop very patiently explained to me that wholemeal is wholergrain that has been ground. You Think!
That's going to affect the weight of spelt I need to add to the mixture, isn't it? The other question is, if I have wholegrain spelt do I grind it or throw it in as is? Forget I asked that, I'm an idiot.
Hi 'gain,
You could use the juice of 2 blood oranges and skip the water, it will make the orange flavour more prominent thought which I imagine probably isn't going to be your preference.
Ah, I didn't think of what I wrote being interpreted that way. Then again I usually remember to write wholegrain spelt flour which it seems I didn't this time, will change it now. What you have is exactly what the weights have been measured for so just break out the scale and go for it.
Kind Regards
Belinda
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