Well, the characters in my current novel are not only getting their stories straight, but they’re sharing them with me. So progress is happening. Hooray!

To celebrate I’m going to share a grain free recipe for chocolate cake made from plantain flour.

Ingredients:

• 4oz/120g butter
• 3 free range eggs
• 4 tablespoons of milk
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 3/4 cup plantain flour
• 1/2 cup mix of cocoa and your favourite drinking chocolate
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees, fan-forced
• In a separate bowl mix plantain flour, cocoa mix, baking soda and cream of tartar
• Soften butter then add sugar and mix well
• Add eggs one at a time and mix well
• Add half the dry mix of plantain flour etc and mix well
• Add half the milk, mix well
• Add remainder of flour then remainder of milk and mix well
• Pour mixture into a greased, non-stick cake pan (seven or eight inches) and bake for approximately 25 mins.

Hope you enjoy!

🙂

Sandy