Premium Choice Love Cake

Premium Choice Love Cake Recipe

Ingredients

·                 3 cups Premium Choice blanched almond meal

·                 1/2 cup desiccated coconut

·                 1 cup Premium Choice raw organic sugar

·                 1/3 cup coconut oil

·                 2 tbs Premium Choice white chia seeds soaked in 1/2 cup water for at least 30 mins

·                 1 1/2 cups coconut  yoghurt/ greek youghurt

·                 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

·                 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

·                 1 tablespoon maple syrup

·                 1/4 cup shelled pistachios, roughly chopped

·                 1/4 cup salted macadamias, roughly chopped

·                 1 tablespoon dried rose petals (for decoration if you like)

·                 Rose water (to preferred taste)

Method

1.                   Preheat oven to 180ºC .

2.                   Grease a 23cm springform cake pan and line the base and sides with baking paper.

3.                   In a large bowl combine the almond meal, coconut, sugar and coconut oil.

4.                   Mix until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

5.                   Spoon half of the mixture into the cake pan and gently press it evenly over the base of the pan

6.                   Add the soaked chia seeds, 1 cup of the coconut yoghurt and spices to the almond mixture and mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.

7.                   Pour the mixture over the base.

8.                   Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

9.                   Meanwhile, combine the remaining yoghurt, maple syrup and rose water in a small bowl.

10.                Cool cake completely on a wire rack. Remove from the springform pan.

11.                 Smooth the coconut yoghurt mixture over the top of the cake until completely coated.