TWF Chocolate Cake – Gluten-Free & Vegan

by Maggie on March 10, 2010

We celebrated something really big recently.

My husband Pete had his first book published by Penguin!   He co-authored the book with two of his colleagues, it’s called The Wealthy Freelancer.

Last week we celebrated with a yummy pizza dinner and I made my new gluten-free and vegan chocolate cake recipe that I’ve been working on for a while.  Naturally I called it TWF Chocolate Cake (The Wealthy Freelancer)!

I used my new favourite icing recipe thanks to Jenn at The Cinnamon Quill. It was a great complement to the chocolatey, yummy cake.

My original hope was for these to be brownies but they just wanted to live as an easy and fool-proof chocolate cake.

TWF Gluten-Free & Vegan Chocolate Cake

3/4 cup my all-purpose bean-free mix.

1/3 cup brown rice flour

1/4 cup sorghum flour

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

3/4 cup sucanat (or brown sugar)

1/2 tsp sea salt

1 tbsp arrowroot powder

1/4 cup non-dairy chocolate milk (I used almond)

3 tbsp maple syrup

1/3 cup oil (I’ve used coconut or sunflower)

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup chocolate chips

course cane sugar for sprinkling

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Oil/grease an 8 x 8 pan.

In your mixer combine the flours, cocoa powder, baking powder, sucanat and sea salt.  In a small bowl, combine the arrowroot powder with the non-dairy milk.  Add the maple syrup, oil, and vanilla and mix.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine.  Stir in the chocolate chips (be careful not to over-stir your cake batter).

Spoon batter into prepared pan and sprinkle with coarse cane sugar (turbinado). Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes.  Check with your handy-dandy cake tester.

Let cool on a wire rack before icing with this yummy homemade cane sugar icing.

NOTES:

You could use only the mix (so 1 1/3 cups) but I like to add the sorghum especially.

The chocolate chips won’t melt so they’ll be little bites of yummy.

There’s xanthan gum or guar gum in my all purpose mix so you don’t need to add more to the cake batter.

You don’t have to use chocolate non-dairy milk but why wouldn’t you?

*If you’re interested in checking out Pete’s book you can do so at Amazon by clicking here.*

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Pete’s Protein Smoothie

by Maggie on March 7, 2010

I love milkshakes.

The kind of milkshake that is so thick your straw stands up all by itself.  Yummy.

Pete is the milkshake maker in our house – otherwise mine would be way too thick and way too much.  I tend to overindulge when it comes to shakes and smoothies.  Too much yumminess.

A few years ago Pete and I went to Brooklyn, NYC and while we were there we bought the ideal shake-making cup; totally old school silver.  We use it every day to make shakes of some sort with our immersion blender.

In general, Pete is not one to use a recipe, in fact they really stress him out!  He’d rather make it up as he goes along, and he does it so well.  Don’t know about you, buy I feel safer with a recipe!

Pete’s been making smoothies for us for a long time.  He often adds protein powder to his but I’m not a big fan.  With this smoothie I don’t think you need to add any powder as the ingredients alone make it a pretty good protein treat.

Pete just whipped this smoothie up one day after a run, and now it’s a staple in our house.  When I need something chocolatey and yummy, which is pretty much every day, this is a great treat.

Pete’s Smoothie

1 tbsp Coconut Oil

1 tbsp Nut Butter (we use peanut or almond butter)

1/2 tbsp Cocoa Powder ( I bet raw cacao would work too)

1/2 tsp Vanilla

1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 Frozen Banana

1 cup almond milk (or any type of milk)

Blend all the ingredients and enjoy.

You could definitely throw some ice cream in here too – if you want your straw to stand up by itself.

This recipe makes enough for one person.  We usually double or triple it because once the babes catch on that we’re having a smoothie, they want one too!

What’s your favourite smoothie recipe?  Chocolate?  Fruit?  Please share.

p.s. Trust me on this smoothie recipe!  If you know me well enough, you’ll know that something must be yummy for me too eat or drink it :)

You can also find this recipe and many more ’slightly indulgent’ recipes at Simply Sugar and Gluten-Free

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