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Amazing Chocolate Quinoa Cake!

Total Time
49 min
20m prep · 29m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This delicious chocolate cake is made with quinoa and no flour.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cold cooked quinoa
  • 0.75 cups melted butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 0.33 cups milk
  • 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1.25 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup cocoa powder
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 0.5 teaspoons salt
  • 0.5 cups chocolate chips
  • 0.5 cups chopped pecans , Optional

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a rectangular cake pan.

  2. 2

    Blend together quinoa, melted butter, eggs, milk, and vanilla in a blender until smooth.

  3. 3

    Combine sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Stir quinoa mixture into sugar mixture until batter is well combined. Fold in chocolate chips and pecans until incorporated. Pour into the prepared pan.

  4. 4

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Place on a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

Per serving

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