Chocolate cake - 150 calories/slice? YES PLEASE!

chooriyah

Made this last night, mostly because I was convinced it wouldn't work. It has no flour, barely any sugar. 150 calories a slice. It has black beans in it. How can it be a chocolate cake?

IT IS YUM.

Black bean chocolate cake
Makes 1 loaf
1 cup/240 g cooked black beans (or 1 400 g/14 oz can black beans, drained)
3 large eggs
1/2 cup/100 g sugar
3 heaping Tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 cup/50 g dark chocolate 70%
1 tsp instant coffee or 1 espresso shot
1/2 vanilla pod, scraped (I put 1t vanilla essence instead)
1 tsp baking powder
Juice and zest from 1/2 organic orange
A pinch of salt

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F/175 °C
2. In a blender combine all of the ingredients, except the dark chocolate. Blend until it is smooth and free of any lumps.
3. Pour the batter into a parchment lined loaf pan. And yes the batter is very liquid-y. Chop the dark chocolate and spread it across the surface, some of the chunks should fall into the batter or else help it with a teaspoon, in order to get chocolate inside the cake as well.
4. Bake the cake for approximately 35 min, and set a side to cool completely before removing it from the pan

Keep the cake in the fridge, up to 5 days, and it will keep moist and delicious. Serve it straight from the fridge with a dollop of sour cream or ice cream and fresh fruit. Or just eat it straight up as a snack! Enjoy…

Recipe copied from http://atastylovestory.com/the-famous-brilliant-black-bean-chocolate-cake/