What is so special about coffee cakes, it isn’t a very exciting dessert after all, right?
And what is with that name, anyway? There is no coffee in “coffee cake”.
Do you eat it with your coffee?
I eat mine with a cup of tea. So, I guess this is no coffee cake after all.
Should I change its name in “tea cake”?
Anyway, let’s get back to this delicious “coffee-tea-cake”.
I guess I’ll just let pictures speak for it (or you really want me to continue describing? ;))
I am not in the best shape today, which is not hard to believe since I didn’t write a post in months! But let me make it up for you with this guilt-free, gluten-free, refined sugar-free – “thing” 😉
CACAO (COFFEE/TEA) CAKE WITH CARROTS AND HAZELNUTS {gluten-free, refined sugar-free}
– makes a loaf (8-10 slices) or 10-12 muffins –
Ingredients:
2 medium carrots
2 ripe bananas
60g butter OR coconut oil
1 egg
30g honey or other liquid sweetener, best maple syrup
80ml homemade milk kefir
100g buckwheat flour
5g baking powder
1g salt
20g raw cacao
50g ground hazelnuts + a handful of whole hazelnuts (separated use)
drizzle (optional)
20g butter
1 Tbsp (20g) honey
Preparation:
- Preheat your oven to 375F (180C) and prepare your loaf tin with baking paper.
- Peel and shred carrots (large holes) and leave aside.
- Mash bananas with egg and combine.
- Melt butter on a low heat, than add honey and kefir to it. After it combines, put away. Let it cool slightly then add it to banana-egg mixture.
- In a medium bowl combine all dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, cacao and ground hazelnuts.
- Add wet batter to dry ingredients, add carrots to it, then combine it all with only a few stirs.
- Pour the batter in the loaf pan, then make it by shaking the pan and sprinkle whole hazelnuts on top, pressing them lightly in the batter. Bake on 375Ffor 35-40min.
- When it rises and gets nice color on edges and top, take it out of the oven and leave to cool. In the meantime, prepare the honey-butter drizzle.
- Melt the butter and honey in a small pot over low heat, stirring to combine and get smooth consistency. Drizzle over the cake and serve.
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