Salted Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Maple Icing

Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 45 mins
Servings: 10
Salted Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Maple Icing

You won’t feel guilty eating this Salted Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Maple Icing. This recipe is refined sugar free and full of flavour!

Ingredients

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line base of a 20cm springform pan with baking paper.
  2. Whisk sifted cocoa, the water, salt and vanilla in a jug until combined.
  3. Beat coconut sugar, eggs and oil in a small bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Add almond meal and cocoa mixture; stir until smooth. Pour into pan.
  4. Bake cake for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out almost clean when inserted into centre. Cool cake in pan.
  5. Combine maple syrup and peanut butter in a small bowl. Spread over top of cake. Serve cake drizzled with extra maple syrup; sprinkled with extra salt.

 

Tip:

Swap smooth peanut butter for crunchy, if you like. The un-iced cake can be frozen for up to 3 months.

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