Tooth-friendly Marbled Chocolate Zucchini Bundt Cake
With a passion for making healthy food delicious, here is a cake that is more zucchini than it is wholemeal flour. Packed with nutrients of zucchini, sweet potato, apple sauce and cocoa powder, all wrapped up in a moist cake, what else can you ask for? But wait, there is more! It is also tooth-friendly and sugar and oil free. Approved by the team at Dr Helen's Dental Studio. That's how healthy food should taste! Recipe by Dr Helen Voronina
Serves 8-10 | Prep time: 15 mins | Cooking time: 50 mins
INGREDIENTS
- 3 cups wholemeal baker’s flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp concentrated Stevia* or equivalent to 1 cup of sugar
- 2 cups unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 cup plant milk
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract (sugar-free) or 2 blended vanilla beans
- 4 lightly packed cups of grated zucchini
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ( I used Van Houten defatted)
Ganache
- 130g/4.6oz sweet potato (steamed, boiled or microwaved)
- 1/2 cup plant milk
- 1/8 cup cacao powder
- 1/8 tsp concentrated stevia* or equivalent to 1/8 cup of sugar of supermarket stevia (adjust depending on the brand you use)
METHOD
- Preheat oven to 175C/350F.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, stevia.
- Add and mix apple sauce, milk, vanilla extract, and zucchini to the dry flour mixture.
- Gently fold cocoa powder for a marbled effect – don’t mix fully.
- Place batter into a silicone bundt cake mould and bake for about 50 minutes. The usual toothpick test will not work with this cake. If you stick a toothpick into the cake and pull it out, the toothpick might not be clean but the cake will be cooked and very moist after 50 minutes.
- Blend all the ganache ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour over the cooled cake.
- Enjoy!
Note: *I use very concentrated 98% stevia so a little goes a long way. If you use stevia from the supermarket, check the proportions on the back of the box and work out the equivalent amount to 1 cup of sugar or to taste. You can also use ground-up green stevia leaf for a really healthy twist but be warned that it has an interesting flavour.
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