During one of our chats, Champa told me that if I stored it in freezer it would easily stay over a year. I was upset on my wasted goods. Anyway since knowing this, I had again stocked up with enough flax seed meal and have been ever since wanting to try. I remember reading that a fruit cake or a nut cake will balance out the flax seed taste in your cake. However I wasn't prepared and had to do with whatever reference came up. I remembered this cake that Priya had sent for one of the events and wanted to try it out. So I tried her Chocolate Almond Flax seeds cake.
Eggless Dark Chocolate Cake with Almond Flakes
Ingredients Needed:
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Hot water - 1/2 cup
Olive oil - 1/4 cup
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Flax seeds meal (grind the flax seeds as fine powder) - 2 tbsp
Hot water - 6 tbsp
Dark chocolate bar (chopped) - 100 grms
Almond flakes - 1/4 cup
How to make the Dark Chocolate Cake with Almond Flakes:
In a bowl, sift together the baking soda, baking powder and flours,
In another bowl, beat together the olive oil, sugar and whisk until the sugar gets dissolved, add the milk, hot water to the mixture and combine everything together.
For the flax seed meal, add the hot water and let it froth. Add this to the wet ingredients.
Melt the chocolate for 30 secs in MW and whisk well. Once it is melted well, add to the wet ingredients.
Gradually add the flour and almond flakes to the wet ingredients by adding a little bit at a time till the flour is used up.
Pre heat the oven at 185 C,
Grease a mould and pour the batter, sprinkle few almond flakes over the batter and bake for nearly 30 - 35 minutes. Check if knife inserted comes out clean.
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vaishali sabnani says
Wow the cake looks so so chocolaty. And I love the use of flax seed ..it gives such a nutty flavour.
Sapana Behl says
Cake looks yummy...I love chocolate with almonds!
Arthy Suman says
rich looking cake....yummy
Harini-Jaya R says
Fantastic bake, Valli!
Manjula Bharath says
I love to substitute flax meal for cakes 🙂 they looks so yummy and spongy !! 🙂 Any thing with chocolate turns always delightful 🙂
Chef Mireille says
looks so dark and rich
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Absolutely incredible!!!!! My boys love this cake, so moist and yummy..
Priya Suresh says
Very chocolaty and very irresistible chocolate cake, i love flaxseed meal in bakes.
Torviewtoronto says
looks wonderful lovely dessert
Padmajha PJ says
I have used flaxseed meal in a couple of bakes. This cake looks so chocolatey and yum!
Nalini's Kitchen says
Cake looks awesome,a real treat for choco lovers..
Pavani N says
That is such a yummy looking cake. I've never tried baking with flax seed meal. Will have to give it a try!!
Jayanthi Padmanabhan says
Delicious chocolate cake. Interesting the flax seed meal.. Haven't tried it either.
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Whoa, that looks super delicious! This is one of my favorite recipe ever and perfectly match my eggless taste buds..