Because he’s so wise, my friend Arby knows how to make one of the worlds yummiest things- chocolate cake, but with a dairy-free healthy twist so you can sneak in heaps without getting into trouble!
Anywhere you see the ± sign, I use it to note possible alterations I can recommend or ingredients that are totally optional.
- 1 Med/Large Zucchini, unpeeled and grated
- 2-3 small beets, cooked and drained
- 150grams silken tofu
- ½ cup raw sugar ± Arby actually uses a tablespoon each of rice syrup, maple syrup and low GI sugar in place of this sometimes when he’s watching his figure.
- 1 ¾ cup wholemeal s/r flour
- 1 tsp bi-carb soda
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp ground coffee
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup oat, soy, almond or rice milk
- 1 cup dark choc chips, dairy-free (Sugarless Blues or Sweet William make alright varieties… ± you can substitute with chopped chunks of any of your favourite choc like lindt dark 70%-85% varieties which are low lactose, it’s awesome)
- ± 1tsp vanilla extract
- ± 1 tbsp of chilli powder or cayenne pepper can give this cake a real kick. You could use it in the actual mix or maybe just frosting. I don’t include frosting in this recipe because everyone has a kind they dig and i prefer just dusting the end result with icing sugar or serving with some crushed peanuts.
Preheat oven to…like, 180ºC.
In a blender make a mush out of beetroot, zucchini and tofu. Mix in coffee, choc chips, sugar and any of the ± (optional) ingredients.
In a separate bowl sift in flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and cinnamon.
Add wet to dry and mix well. Add the milk bit by bit just to add to get a good consistency going.
Put into non-stick cake pan and cook until a knife goes in and comes out clear (though if it comes out with melted choc, you might have hit a choc-chip so be aware of that). This takes about 40mins.
Ice how you want or dust with icing sugar to serve.
The pictures here show a version I did where i first put down baking paper in the cake pan and put down a layer of crushed peanuts with maple syrup before pouring on the cake mix…you gotta mix it up, yeah?!
This is the beetroot, zucchini, tofu stage that will confuse and scare any onlookers who are expecting chocolate cake when you’re done.
Peanut maple-syrup top.
…careful
Best bit. No egg, so you wont get salmonella or something cleaning up this way.
No! This is the best bit. Sharing with friends.
All the treats in the world couldn’t mask the cruel reality of his nails slip-sliding on the concrete floor. And so, he pined for soft, wet grass.
(Photo: Dave Lauridsen; Dwell)
#animalabuse, #slidinginsocks
Dear friend Lauren made a short pilgrimage back to Melbourne this week after spending the last 4 months in beachside Robe, SA, bringing along foodie and co-worker from the lovely Robe Providore! So they of course spent 2 days straight eating every meal out at some of Laurens’ best regarded haunts (how people in this city stay thin i’ll never know).
Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder (no photos here but the buttermilk pancakes looked AMAZING, they were honestly an inch thick!) and Min Lokal are perfect for Autumn brunches with dishes served in individual and retro rustic stone crockery my new obsession. Seven Seeds in Carlton, nothing new- still making some of the best coffee going.
Because prints on canvas are, like, so 2005.
This link is posted as part of the ‘places I went to today in Melbourne that had not noticed or would like you to notice’ set.
A weekend in Adelaide.
Football season started.
Easter.
New personal record of 17 days without washing my hair.
These are just some of the brilliant things that have happened since I’ve been neglecting tumblr!
So-
Here is a picture of the new Cupcake Bakery on Elizabeth street. Awesome. It’s right next to a very unappetizing smut-store. Awesome? So walking towards the mall it goes Kentucky Fried, girls with low-self esteem, cupcakes!
Hobbies. Ah. Was thinking of getting back into the arts a little but it’s imaginative humans like this that make me think I should stick to amateur baking and daytime TV perusing.
Hahndorf!!
Having been here a few times as a kid I was keen to show Will, mostly because I don’t think he believed me that it existed in the way I remembered (beautiful place, but as Australias oldest surviving German Settlement town, kind of nuts). Oma and Opa were kind enough to take us out for lunch to the German Arms and we came away with a new friend, Liam (who was discounted because he was missing a shoelace…LIAM!).
German-Style Hot Dog envy? Hofbrauhaus in Melbourne is your best bet and the steins don’t get much bigger.
A day at the beach.
Between the inebriated fisherman and stab-crazy locals, there was Will and myself- playing up the hipster-douchebag image we’d accidentally adopted in Glenelg.
