Chocolate & Raspberry Ripple Cake
This recipe makes enough for a giant cake tin. If you don’t have one of these, then you can halve the recipe for a smaller, approximately 8 inch/20cm cake tin. We used a food processor to mix all our ingredients together. You can still mix by hand, but don’t panic too much about creaming the butter and coconut sugar/Xylitol together for ages – the cake works well enough without this!
Instead of butter icing, we’ve smothered the cake in raw dark chocolate and raspberry chocolate. This large cake will generously serve 10-12 people or allow for several helpings for fewer people. Hurrah!
Organic Coconut Sugar 1kg (Sussex Wholefoods)
225g coconut sugar
Gluten Free Self-Raising White Flour 1kg (Doves Farm)
225g self-raising flour
Organic Cocoa Powder 500g (Sussex Wholefoods)
4 tbsp cocoa powder
Pure Vanilla Extract 60ml (Nielsen Massey)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Xylitol 1kg (Sussex Wholefoods)
225g Xylitol
Gluten Free Self-Raising White Flour 1kg (Doves Farm)
225g self-raising flour
Freeze-Dried Raspberry Powder 100g (Sussex Wholefoods)
3 tbsp freeze-dried raspberry powder
Pure Vanilla Extract 60ml (Nielsen Massey)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Raspberry Fruit Spread, Organic 284g (Meridian)
65g raspberry fruit spread
Organic Raw Cacao Butter 250g (Sussex Wholefoods)
100g raw cacao butter
Organic Raw Cacao Powder 500g (Sussex Wholefoods)
6 tbsp raw cacao powder
Organic Coconut Sugar 1kg (Sussex Wholefoods)
3 tbsp coconut sugar
Fine Pink Himalayan Salt 1kg (Sussex Wholefoods)
A pinch of pink salt
Organic Raw Cacao Butter 250g (Sussex Wholefoods)
50g raw cacao butter
Organic Cashew Nuts 1kg (Sussex Wholefoods)
50g finely ground cashew nuts
Light Agave Syrup, Organic 250ml (Biona)
2 tbsp light agave syrup
Organic Lucuma Powder 250g (Sussex Wholefoods)
2 tsp lucuma powder
Pure Vanilla Extract 60ml (Nielsen Massey)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Freeze-Dried Raspberry Powder 100g (Sussex Wholefoods)
15g freeze-dried raspberry powder
Other Ingredients
450g butter or margarine
8 eggs
6 tbsp milk
Use half these quantities for each of the 2 cake layers
Method
1) Oil your cake tin and dust with flour, tapping out the excess.
2) Heat the oven to 180°c/160°c Fan/ Gas Mark 4.
3) Make up the chocolate cake mix first. Cream the butter and coconut sugar, then if mixing by hand gradually add the eggs, vanilla extract and a little of the flour and cocoa at a time. Or just blitz altogether in the food processor. Keep this mix to one side or transfer this mixture from the food processor into a clean bowl.
4) Now mix up the raspberry cake mix. Cream the butter and Xylitol, then if mixing by hand gradually add the eggs, vanilla extract and a little of the flour and raspberry powder at a time. Or just blitz altogether in the food processor. Keep this mix to one side or transfer this mixture from the food processor into a clean bowl.
5) Transfer each cake mix into a separate piping bag or thick freezer bag, if you don’t have any piping bags. This is a messy job, but it’s worth it! If you don’t have a large piping nozzle you will need to cut one corner of the freezer bag to act as the nozzle.
6) Take the bag with the chocolate mix first and pipe some mixture into the base of both halves of the cake tin. Then do the same with the raspberry mix. Keep swapping over until you’ve run out of cake mix.
7) Take a spatula or non-stick palette knife and draw a rough zig-zag through the cake mix in both halves of the cake tin.
8) Place in the centre of the oven for around 1 hour 10 minutes or until a (wooden) skewer comes out dry. It is best to check sooner rather than later as the swirly top part of the cupcake will cook slightly quicker. Let the cake cool a little before removing both halves and then allow them to cool further on a metal cake rack.
9) Make a batch of dark chocolate. See the recipe for Raw Chocolate Romeos for the instructions. Let the mixture cool slightly so that it starts to become a little thicker.
10) In the meantime spread the raspberry jam on the base part of the cake. Place the top part of the cake on top. Transfer the whole cake onto a plate with some foil or baking parchment underneath. Then gently spoon/ladle the dark chocolate mix over the very top of the cake and allow it to run down the sides. As the melted chocolate collects at the base use a spoon to coat the side of the cake. Set the cake aside to allow this layer of chocolate to set.
11) Make a batch of white chocolate – see the recipe for Snow Blossom Chocolates for the instructions (remember to substitute freeze-dried raspberry powder instead of freeze-dried strawberries!). Once the Dark Chocolate has set you can pour the Raspberry Chocolate on top of the cake to create an “iced” topping. Allow to set and decorate the rest of the cake as you wish e.g.: add a bow around the cake, etc.
