Come hither bakeoff buddies

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

Bakeoff usually kicks off early August. Anyone care to join me in any bakeoff gossip.
We can chat about past bakeoffs and wonder what this series will be like.

[ppeatfruit]

OK Wizard tomorrow!

[Madeyemoodysmum]

Brilliant. I'm pleased it's starting later. It's a total dark evenings scoffing cakes on the sofa prog to me. I hate that it ends so early in the autumn.

[ppeatfruit]

Here goes, Easy Chocolate Brownie Cake

This is a one pot cake (I use a large Le Creuset Saucepan) On the lowest light on the hob. My gas doesn't go quite low enough so I use a diffuser.

Ingredients;

chopped walnuts or almonds
ground ginger and or cardamom,cinnamon ( we like a good flavour so I use 2 tsp. of each it's up to you how much you use)
3\4 cup of almond oil or any oil you like
100g. 70% chopped best dark chocolate (unsweetened if you prefer).
3\4 cup of molasses
1\2 cup of maple syrup or rice syrup (more if you used unsweetened chocolate)
1 cup of ground almonds
1 cup of sieved spelt or Kamut flour (or whatever flour you like!)
I heaped tsp. baking powder I use gf
1heaped tsp. bicarb. of soda
pinch of salt, almond milk to 'soften the mixture' if it needs it.
Candied ginger pieces if you like them

Method; Dry fry the spices gently till you can smell them. Then add the nuts for i\2 a min. Put in the syrups, oil and chocolate, very gently stir till melted and mix in the candied ginger. Take off the heat and mix in the ground almonds. Let it cool a little then add the flour, salt and baking powders , mix carefully adding milk if nec. till it 'drops ' slowly off the spoon, metal is best for this .

Have an oiled, lined metal tart tin ready and put in oven at 180 C on a baking tray. It takes approx 1\2 to 3\4 of an hour.. Keep an eye on it, if you like it softish, it just needs to be coming away from the sides! Let it cool completely in the tin you can cut it up then if you want to still in the tin. It often tastes better after a day or so. Wrapped in greaseproof, in the fridge if it's a very hot day!