CHICKPEA AND CHOCOLATE CAKE

  Time: 50 minutes
  Difficulty: easy
  Serves: 8

  INGREDIENTS

• 200 g canned chickpeas

• 20 g bitter cacao powder

• 2 eggs

• 80 g sugar

• 30 ml vegetable oil (neutral tasting)

• vanilla essence

• 50 g dark chocolate, flaked

• rind of 1 orange, grated

METHOD

Drain the chickpeas and cook gently in a little oil for a couple of minutes. Then blend and add the sugar, cacao powder, vanilla essence, grated orange rind, vegetable oil and the eggs and mix well; add a pinch of salt and the dark chocolate flakes.

Pout the cake micture into a greased cake tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 25/30 minutes.