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CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE easy moist dessert type cake

An easy Chocolate Cake Recipe

We’ve all got our favourite chocolate cake recipe, but this  one is new for me and the best I’ve tried for a while now. Everyone who’s eaten it loves it and has asked for the recipe so here it is!

Make it and send me a picture of how it turns out, do let me know your variations as well.

I’ll publish the most interesting ones at the end of this post! The ingredients are pretty easy to get in any country so I reckon you could make it just about anywhere, anytime.

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Use it for a dinner party dessert, a coming home treat or a midnight snack! You could use a thermomix but you don’t have to. I didn’t, a hand mixer or even a wooden spoon works just fine!

Ingredients for the Chocolate Cake Recipe

WET INGREDIENTS

  • 3 ripe but not too ripe bananas mashed up in a bowl
  • 1 medium egg beaten up
  • 150 grams of butter melted

DRY INGREDIENTS 

  • 120 grams of plain flour 
  • 30 grams of spelt flour (I use wholemeal spelt flour, makes it a bit easier to digest as it’s lower in gluten)
  • 1 teaspoon bircarbonate of soda 
  • 60 grams brown sugar (this is half the quantity of the original recipe!) 
  • 30 grams cocoa (I use Cadbury’s)

THE CHOCOLATE 

  • 60 grams good quality chocolate chips, I use Hersheys, for the top of the cake 
  • 100 grams of your favourite dark chocolate (I use 1 bar of 70% Lindt plain chocolate) broken up into small pieces 

You’ll also need a loaf tin lined with greaseproof paper.

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Chocolate Cake Recipe Method

There are 2 basic mixtures you have to get ready,  a dry mix and a wet mix for this chocolate cake recipe. But first turn on your oven set to 180 degrees C so it’s ready for the cake to go in.

  1. Mash the bananas in a large bowl
  2. Add the melted butter and the beaten egg to the bananas and mix well
  3. Add the sugar to this mixture
  4. Sift in the flours with the bicarbonate of soda to the same bowl
  5. Add the cocoa powder and mix in
  6. Add the chocolate pieces, stir through
  7. Pour the thick, batter type mix into your lined loaf tin, I didn’t grease mine first, but do use the paper to come up the sides.
  8. Sprinkle over the chocolate chips on top
  9. Bake at 180 degrees for about 55 minutes
  10. Remove from oven, if a sharp knife comes out clean, it’s ready, if not, leave a bit longer, but watch if from now on. Remove from the oven and serve as you like
  11. Watch it disappear fast!

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Original Recipe came from

The original inspiration for this recipe came from trying it at a friend’s house in the Arabian Ranches in June 2017. She got hers from a Facebook Page called Desert Mixers, it’s a private page run by another friend of mine.  Here’s the link to the original recipe, but I’ve CHANGED mine and really like the result.

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I used half the amount of sugar, and substituted some of the flour with spelt, I think next time I make this I’ll use 50 grams of spelt flour and 100 of plain flour. I had no idea what a chocolate melt was as required in the original recipe so I guessed (wrongly as it turned out) but the result was perfect, so it was a good guess!

Hope yours turns out perfect too!  Let me know in a comment and send a picture with the subject line CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE to info at doindubai.com

Happy Eating everyone, great for an Iftar treat during Ramadan or great for a special family Eid meal later this month.

Thanks Monica.

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PALEO VEGETARIAN OPTION tasty easy courgette felafels vegan too

Lot’s of us know about the Paleo diet, but at first sight it’s heavy on the meat. Try my ‘almost’ paleo vegetarian option for you to try. Perfect alternative to deep fried felafels especially during Ramadan time.

Delicious, easy and quick, the whole family should like it and a great way to disguise courgettes too!

Paleo vegetarian option

My paleo vegetarian option can be made 2 ways, with tapioca flour or rice flour, so that’s a bit of cheating, but it’s still a great way of eating healthily and ‘almost’ paleo.

I first made these felafel with both of the flours, but subsequently just with the rice flour. Do remember rice flour, while not paleo is still gut friendly and should therefore be easy to digest.

Courgette and Almond cakes paleo vegetarian option DoinDubai gallery

Ingredients for the paleo vegetarian option

 Courgette and almond felafels 

To make 8 to 10 small cutlets you will need 

  • 1 large, dark green courgette, I know weights and sizes vary
  • 125 grams of almond flour (sometimes called almond meal)
  • 1 teaspoon each of rice flour and tapioca flour or 2 teaspoons of one of the flours or 30 g of one flour*
  • 1 inch of fresh grated ginger
  • 1 smashed clove of garlic
  •  salt/pepper to taste
  • your favourite kind of chilli – Mine is  1/2 a teaspoon of 800 Degrees Italian chilli or some fresh chopped red chilli
  • Grapeseed oil to fry your falafel

Of course if you had a thermomix you could make your own almond flour in seconds!

*If your mixture is too “wet” then just add a little bit more of your chosen flour, about a teaspoon or so till it absorbs any watery liquid.

Paleo vegetarian option DoinDubai Chilli 800 Degrees

What to do with the ingredients 

  • Grate the courgette then tip into a bowl
  • Add all the seasonings and chilli
  • Pour in the almond flour
  • Add the 2 teaspoons of either tapioca or rice flour or 1 teaspoon of each
  • Mix all the ingredients together till they form a rough, slightly moist dough
  • Shape with your hands into little fishcake type portions and lay on a plate or greased baking tray. You may want to have a bit of the rice or tapioca flour on a board whilst shaping
  • Shallow fry till golden brown on both sides

Serve with whatever you like, a raw, grated beetroot salad, some sweet potato fries and coconut chutney would be my choice.  Or you could just serve with a roasted red pepper dip on the side. Here’s the entire recipe with the full video, about 8 minutes long.

Check out all the different flours you can get from Adils supermarket next to Mall of Emirates 

paleo flours from Adils Paleo vegetarian option DoinDubai

These flours are freshly milled and cost a fraction of the supermarket Gluten free flours I’ve seen!

  • Bajra is a type of millet often used to make Indian rotis, naturally gluten free.
  • Atta means flour in Hindi.
  • Makkai means corn.

Does anyone know what Jowar means?

  • Tapioca flour is a very common Indian flour and is called saboodana in Hindi in case you go to Adils and they don’t immediately understand tapioca.

There is also a branch of Adils in Karama near Bur Dubai. 

Most of the rotis/chappatis you’d get in an Indian restaurant would be made from wheat but makkai or corn flour rotis are common and often eaten with saag (spinach), especially in the winter months.

Rasoi Ghar Rotis Breads Paleo vegetarian options DoinDbubai

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