Recipe- Hazelnuts And Cherry Chocolate Cake

This moist and yumm Chocolate Cherry and Hazelnut Cake with the goodness of Coconut flour, nutty Hazelnuts and fresh cherries on top. The recipe is with egg but you can also bake the eggless version of this cake.

Delicious and ohh.. so chocolatey cake, for my chocolate loving kids..There vacations are going one and most of the time they are home except a few activity classes. I keep my stock of homemade goodies for them , so that they have something to munch on when they get hunger pangs in between meals or something to have with milk. Instead of getting the store bought stuff, they love having homebaked stuff. My elder one loves to gorge on cookies, cakes and stuff like that but fortunately she also now knows the importance of healthy and calculated eating.

Ingredients

¾ Cup Coconut flour
2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
1/2 Cup Coconut Sugar any natural sweetener
2 Eggs
¼ Cup Olive Oil or Coconut Oil
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Hazelnuts
Finely Chopped Fresh Cherries
½ tsp Baking Powder
2 tbsp Cornstarch

Method

* Preheat oven to 325°F or 162°C.

* Sieve together flour, baking powder, cornstarch, cocoa powder and salt.

* In a mixing bowl, mix oil and sugar.

* Add egg and extract and beat well.

* Add flour mix and fold flour with egg mix.

* Fold in half of chopped nuts.

* Transfer the batter to 6" cake tin.

* Top with roughly chopped cherries.

* Bake cake in preheated oven at 325°F for 25 minutes.

* Cake is baked when it starts leaving the sides . Do the toothpick test to check the doneness.

* Take out of the pan very carefully.

* Cut once it cools completely.

* Prepare buttermilk with 1/2 Cup any plant based milk and 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar.

* Add to flour first and then add buttermilk and fold the batter.