Chocolate macadamia fudge cake

We stay with great friends for a few days in early January each year, who live up in the Byron Hinterland in the town of Rosebank. It is just beautiful up there, with rolling green hills, tree-lined roads and friendly people. I always cook a couple of treats while we’re there for everyone, and one I did was a bit of an invention and similar to the Gooey chocolate pudding, but more of a cake that you can serve as a decadent morning tea or dessert with custard. We opted for the latter for the final night’s dessert and Griffin, their oldest, declared it “the best gluten-free dessert ever”. So there you have it, the first positive testimonial that hopefully makes it worth having a go!

It’s dense and fudgy so you can easily have this serve 10-11 people but if you’re cooking for many, double it and bake in a large baking tray for half the time, and cut 25 squares instead.

Enjoy and if you make it, do tag me on Instagram @lowtoxlife so that I can see your creations!

Here’s to real treats and less fake weirdness for 2018!

Real Treats. Happy Bodies. Connected Souls.

 

 

 

 

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5 from 1 vote

Chocolate Macadamia Fudge Cake

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Servings: 10 generous slices

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pre heat your oven to 170C, fan forced or 180C/350F if not fan forced.
  • Line a tart tin or round cake pan of around 20cm diameter with baking paper or rub melted butter all over it and then dust that buttered tin with flour for a natural non stick technique.
  • Melt butter either in saucepan on low for a few minutes, or in your thermo-cooker for 2 mins, high temp, speed 1.
  • If using a thermo-cooker, add all ingredients leaving eggs to last and except choc chips and macadamias, and blend on speed 5, 5 seconds, then reverse speed 5 another 5 seconds. Then pour choc chips and macadamia nuts in and stir by hand to combine at the end. You can also follow this method if using a food processor or blender, by adding melted butter first, then following the rest and simply blending on high, scraping down after five seconds, then blending again for another five seconds, mixing the choc chips and macadamia chunks in at the end by hand.
  • If mixing by hand, leave melted butter to the side in the pan for a minute.
  • Whisk eggs and syrup / sugar together in a large mixing bowl
  • Add flours (sifted if they're lumpy!), baking powder, desiccated coconut, cocoa powder and finally the melted butter in, and mix by hand until lumps removed and a lovely, thick consistency.
  • Once your batter is ready, how ever you got to this point, pour and scrap into the baking tin, and pop in the oven
  • Check the cake at 25mins. If it's still a very wet skewer after 25 mins, bake another few minutes, otherwise pull it out - You want the edges a little bit bouncy to the touch but the middle a bit softer for your fudgy vibes.
  • You're done. All that's left now is to gather your favourite people around a table with a cup o tea, to share it together.

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  1. I made this today but doubled the recipe to fill a large baking tray. Came out beautifully and very delicious. I needed some more gluten free chocolate recipes in my repertoire (as you can never have too many chocolate ones) so thank you!

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      Hey there, it’s just for people who are weighing things on a scale verses people who are using a cup measure – Just go by whichever method you measure your ingredients with.

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  2. Hi Alexx, going to make this for my birthday this week (to bring to work) – thinking of adding your healthy icing – too much??

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  3. 5 stars
    Made this today for a birthday. Sprinkled top with a tiny bit of icing sugar and placed some strawberries on top. Was so delicious, simple to make. Thanks Alexx , I’ll be making it again for sure

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