Recipe: Tasty Black Bean Chocolate Cake

Black Bean Chocolate Cake.

You can have Black Bean Chocolate Cake using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Black Bean Chocolate Cake

1. Prepare 6 tbsp of cocoa powder.
2. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
3. You need 1 (15 oz) of can of unseasoned black beans.
4. You need 1 tbsp of vanilla.
5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of espresso powder (optional).
7. Prepare 5 of large eggs or 4 jumbo eggs.
8. You need 1/3 cup of chocolate chips, melted.
9. You need 5 1/2 tbsp of oil (canola is fine, probably can use other oils).
10. Prepare 1/3 cup of sugar.
11. It's of Optional ingredients for mixing in.
12. Prepare of Chocolate chips.
13. You need of Chopped walnuts.
14. You need of Shredded coconut.
15. It's of Etc.

Black Bean Chocolate Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F..
2. Grease a 9" cake pan and dust with cocoa powder. Line bottom of tin with a parchment round and grease the parchment..
3. Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl, add the baking powder, and whisk to combine..
4. Drain and rinse the black beans. Blend the beans, vanilla, salt, espresso powder if using, and 3 large eggs or 2 jumbo eggs in the blender until smooth..
5. Pour the bean mixture into a bowl and mix in the melted chocolate and the oil..
6. In another bowl, beat the remaining eggs and the sugar on high until light yellow in color and about doubled in volume..
7. Mix the cocoa powder into the bean mix..
8. Gently stir/fold the egg/sugar into the bean mix until combined..
9. Fold in any optional mix-in ingredients you're using (e.g. chocolate chips)..
10. Pour into cake pan. Smooth top..
11. Bake for 30min..
12. Cool on rack in the tin for 10-15min, then turn out onto the rack and cool to room temperature..
13. The flavor develops and deepens a lot as it sits, so for best flavor let it sit overnight before eating. Heat pieces in the microwave before serving..