Happy Anniversary to CTF! Chocolate Chickpea Cake

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To celebrate, how about some cake?  Chocolate cake is my favorite. I promise that they’ll never guess it’s chickpeas in this cake!  I served this over the holidays the last two years in a row.  It was a hit, even with guests who don’t like chickpeas or other beans.  The density and texture is similar to a pound cake.  This recipe is too thick to do in a blender, you’ll need a food processor.

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Chocolate Chickpea Cake            

Hands-on: 15 minutes
Hands-off: 35 minutes

1½ cups sprouted or soaked and cooked chickpeas
3 eggs
¾ cup or more rapadura
1/3 cup coconut oil or butter, melted
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
Dash salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease an 8”x4” loaf pan and set aside.

Combine the chickpeas, eggs and rapadura in a food processor and blend until smooth.  Add the remaining ingredients and blend until uniform, scraping down the sides of the bowl if necessary.  Pour into the greased loaf pan and bake for about 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Serve in slices like pound cake or decorate as desired.

This can also be baked in a 9” round cake pan if you don’t have the right size loaf pan.  Watch for doneness after 35 minutes.  If you don’t have cocoa powder, you can substitute 1½ cups chocolate chips and melt in a double boiler and blend with the chickpeas and cut down on the sweetener.

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KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has ten years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader.  Read about KerryAnn’s journey to health through multiple miscarriages, celiac disease, food allergies and intolerances, obesity, adrenal fatigue and heavy metals.

Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love.  With two choices of Menu Mailers, multiple eBooks, Print Books and a Gluten and Dairy-Free Traditional Foods eCourse, KerryAnn makes traditional foods easy, accessible, affordable and family friendly for everyone.

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