Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Flourless Choc-Nut Squares

Light and tender, handy to have with a coffee, not too sweet or sickly and no flour!
Moist in the middle.
Makes 12.



Ingredients:

vegetable oil spray
100g dark chocolate, broken into chunks.
3 medium eggs, separated.
35g Natvia/ stevia
35g caster sugar ( if you have no stevia use 70g sugar )
75g ground almonds ( meal )
1 teaspoon coffee instant or ground.
25g smashed hazelnuts, nicest if they are roasted, or walnuts-chopped.

Method:
Preheat oven to 180C or 350F/ 160C fan or 320F.
Spray and line a 20cm square cake tin, for square pieces of cake.
Put the chocolate in a bowl and microwave on low 1 min, stir and continue 1 minute apart stirs until it has melted. Don't over cook. You could use the traditional method, put the choc in a bowl over simmering water to melt.
Whisk egg yolks and sugar/natvia until pale and creamy.
Stir in the ground almonds, melted choc, coffee and nuts.
With clean beaters and a clean bowl beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
Fold the egg whites into the mix.
Pour the mix into the tin, push to fill the edges.
Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until the surface is slightly springy to touch. Fan bake is quicker, check at 15 minutes.
Leave to cool
Cut into squares and douse with icing sugar.
Make coffee or tea, ha.





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