Healthy apple chocolate cake {vegan & gluten-free} - without sugar}
This cake is healthy, incredibly juicy and delicious. It is gluten-free, vegan and baked without refined sugar.
Servings 1 cake
Ingredients
- 180 g ground almonds
- 150 g pumpkin puree
- 80 g dried dates
- 40 g raw cocoa
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 1-2 apples
- 200 ml plant drink e.g. almond
For the cake base
- 100 g walnuts
- 6 dates
Instructions
- Cut the dates into small pieces and grind them together with walnuts in a mixer. The mixture should be sticky. Place the mixture on a baking tin lined with baking paper and press lightly with your fingers.
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Mix the almonds in a blender at the highest speed until they become flour. Add dates, vegetable drink, pumpkin puree, raw cocoa and cinnamon and mix until it's creamy.
- Pour the mixture over the walnut-date base and bake for approx. 50-60 minutes. Check the dough every now and then with a wooden stick. The cake dough may still be slightly moist from the inside after baking. Allow the cake to cool in the form for a few minutes.
- Remove the seeds from the apples and cut into slices. Put some oil in a pan and fry the apples lightly on both sides. Place the apple slices over the cake and drizzle with chocolate sauce as desired.
Notes
For the cake you need a small springform 18 cm in diameter.
If you don't have a high performance mixer at hand, you can also use a hand mixer to mix the ingredients for the dough. For the processing of almonds, walnuts and dates it is recommended to use a powerful food processor.