19th June 2020
Categorised in Quick Food
A quick and easy to follow recipe requiring a minimum number of dishes and no flour! This delicious and simple cake is perfect for a birthday party, holiday, or any day that you want a sweet treat!
Total time and servings
- Prepation Time: 15 mins
- Cooking Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 60 mins
- Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 150ml olive oil
- 50g cocoa powder
- 3 eggs
- 150g ground almonds
- 200g caster sugar
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 125ml boiling water
- icing sugar
- a pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170c / 150c fan or gas mark 3 and lightly grease your cake tin.
- Place the caster sugar, olive oil and eggs together in a bowl or your mixer and mix together for 3 minutes.
- Take the cocoa powder, boiling water and mix together in a bowl and whisk to create a chocolaty paste then pour the cocoa powder mixture in with the sugar, oil and eggs mix and whisk together.
- Add the ground almonds, salt and bicarbonate of soda folding into the mixture. Pour into the cake tin and place in the oven for 40 – 50 minutes.
- Dust with icing sugar to finish. Fruit, cream or ice cream can be used to serve.