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Passionfruit Cake

by Danielle Minnebo February 20, 2017

Passionfruit Cake

By: Danielle Minnebo

This beautiful cake is a real treat for a special occasion. It’s light and buttery with a lovely passionfruit flavour.

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Recipe

Ingredients

130g butter, room temperature
100g coconut palm sugar
2 eggs
½ cup rice flour
Pulp 4 passionfruit
1 cup wholemeal spelt flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ cup almond milk
1 cup yoghurt, to garnish
Pulp 1 passionfruit, to garnish

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C and grease and line round 20cm cake tin.
To mixing bowl, add butter and coconut palm sugar. Beat together until light and creamy. Add 1 egg with 1 tbsp rice flour, beat until combined. Add remaining egg with another tbsp rice flour and beat until combined. Add passionfruit, remaining rice flour, spelt flour, baking powder and almond milk. Mix together until well combined.
Pour batter into cake tin and bake for 40 mins or until skewer comes out clean.
Allow cake to cool completely before topping with yoghurt and more passionfruit pulp.

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#Tags: dessert, healthy, vegetarian

Danielle Minnebo

Danielle is a university-qualified nutritionist, a passionate home cook and founder of Food to Nourish. Danielle’s love affair with cooking started at a very young age in the kitchen where she was taught to cook by her mother. Danielle is passionate about helping people form a better understanding of nutrition and a healthier relationship with the food they eat. In fact, she’s on a mission to help spread the real food message to as many people as possible. Throughout her work as a nutritionist, Danielle’s basic principles have always come back to how we cook and prepare our food. She believes it really is as simple as combining wholefood ingredients in the right way to create tasty dishes that are nutrient-dense and full of flavour.