How to make a healthy ( well healthier) with no sugar chocolate dish ? that's this months challenge for We should Cocoa - January 2013, so here goes, substituting agave nectar for sugar is allowed.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup of light agave nectar
- 1 cup of plain wholemeal flour
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Good pinch of salt
- 1 egg free range please
- 1/2 cup skimmed milk
- 1/4 cup sunflower oil
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- 1/2 cup boiling water
Method
- Preheat oven to 180c
- Oil spray and base line approx 8" round cake tin
- Sieve flour, cocoa and all other dry ingredients into mixer bowl
- Add all other ingredients except the boiling water
- Mix throughly for a couple of minutes
- Now stir in the boiling water, this is to activate the baking soda
- Quickly pour your mixture into the prepared pan
- Bake for approx 35 -40 minutes until tests done with a skewer
- Cool in the tin for about 10 minutes and then on a wire rack
- Serve when full cooled with creme fraiche or vanilla yoghurt.
