Black Bean Chocolate Cake.
You can cook Black Bean Chocolate Cake using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Black Bean Chocolate Cake
- Prepare of cocoa powder.
- Prepare of baking powder.
- It's of can of unseasoned black beans.
- You need of vanilla.
- It's of salt.
- It's of espresso powder (optional).
- Prepare of large eggs or 4 jumbo eggs.
- Prepare of chocolate chips, melted.
- You need of oil (canola is fine, probably can use other oils).
- It's of sugar.
- Prepare of Optional ingredients for mixing in.
- Prepare of Chocolate chips.
- It's of Chopped walnuts.
- You need of Shredded coconut.
- Prepare of Etc.
Black Bean Chocolate Cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°F..
- Grease a 9" cake pan and dust with cocoa powder. Line bottom of tin with a parchment round and grease the parchment..
- Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl, add the baking powder, and whisk to combine..
- Drain and rinse the black beans. Blend the beans, vanilla, salt, espresso powder if using, and 3 large eggs or 2 jumbo eggs in the blender until smooth..
- Pour the bean mixture into a bowl and mix in the melted chocolate and the oil..
- In another bowl, beat the remaining eggs and the sugar on high until light yellow in color and about doubled in volume..
- Mix the cocoa powder into the bean mix..
- Gently stir/fold the egg/sugar into the bean mix until combined..
- Fold in any optional mix-in ingredients you're using (e.g. chocolate chips)..
- Pour into cake pan. Smooth top..
- Bake for 30min..
- Cool on rack in the tin for 10-15min, then turn out onto the rack and cool to room temperature..
- The flavor develops and deepens a lot as it sits, so for best flavor let it sit overnight before eating. Heat pieces in the microwave before serving..