Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
45-50 minutes
1 loaf cake
Vegetarian
About this recipe:
This traditional Austrian style chocolate cake is delicious with or without the icing. Packed with wholegrain goodness, it slices easily and keeps well – perfect with a cup of tea or coffee.
Equipment:
500g/1lb loaf tin, 3 x mixing bowls, saucepan and blender
Ingredients:
CHOCOLATE ALMOND CAKE
75g Doves Farm Organic Wholemeal Rye Flour
75g ground almonds
½ tsp cinnamon
75g plain chocolate
75g unsalted butter
25g glacé peel
3 eggs
100g caster sugar
butter, for tin
COCOA ALMOND TOPPING
15g butter
15g cocoa
50g caster sugar
2 tbsp cream
½ tsp vanilla extract
10 blanched almonds
Method:
180°C, Fan 160°C, 350°F, Gas 4
Chocolate Almond Cake
- Pre-heat the oven.
- Rub some butter around the inside of a 500g/1lb loaf tin or insert a cake liner.
- Put the flour, ground almonds and cinnamon into a bowl and stir to combine.
- Break the chocolate into another bowl, add the butter and melt together gently.
- Finely dice the glacé peel with a knife or in a blender.
- Put the eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat until they thicken slightly.
- Add the diced glace peel and melted chocolate and beat well.
- Stir in the prepared flour and ground almonds.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the top.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes.
- Allow to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning it out onto a cooling rack.
Cocoa Almond Topping
- Put the butter, cocoa, sugar, cream and vanilla extract into a saucepan over a medium heat and stir until dissolved. Simmer gently for 6-8 minutes then remove from the heat.
- Allow to cool, stirring occasionally until it thickens.
- Beat until smooth and glossy then spread it over the cold cake.
- Press the ten blanched almonds onto the top of the cake before the icing sets.
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Really good recipe. I swapped the almond flour with ground sunflower seeds and the sugar with date molasses. Also skipped the icing to keep on the healthy side. Super easy and tastes exquisite.
Houda
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
An absolutely brilliant cake - scrumptious.
Kate Mellor
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
Best chocolate cake I have ever made- and I really love chocolate cake! Has a rich, dense chocolate flavour that is superb. I use plain white flour with about 15 percent rye sieved into the mix. Apart from that it's jolly well perfect.
nina jo
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
We love cake and we certainly loved this cake. The recipe is v easy and produced a really delicious teatime (in fact anytime ) cake. Will certainly be making it again. I only had white rye flour so used that. Will get the wholemeal rye for next time. Another great recipe #dovefarms
Judy
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
My new favourite cake. I will be making this again tomorrow for a friend. Absolutely yummy. Good rich, dense cake. Used 70% dark chocolate and reduced the sugar by 10g. The topping is delicious and glossy. My topping didn’t need 6 minutes but I do think constant stirring is a must. Very nice indeed. Thank you for this recipe.
Virginia Brown
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
Wow, I made this today. It’s really delicious and simple to make. And not too sweet. Followed cake recipe exactly. For the topping I improvised, times all by 3- used mascarpone instead of cream and swapped half of my golden caster for dark soft brown sugar. The result was so nice! Had a extra topping left to serve. Very fudgy- would go great on a brownie too!!
Laura Bennett
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake
Got this review on the side of a rye flour packet from Dove ages and have been making it ever since. Very easy to make and tastes like it involved way more effort. Often forgo the glaze and replace the glace peel with raisins, it's great. I love rye products anyway, but even if I didn't care would buy rye flour just to be able to make this loaf :)
Cassandra
Reviewing: Wholemeal Rye, Chocolate and Almond Loaf Cake