Recipe: Mother Blessing Cacao Cake
Cacao is an incredible plant medicine that has been used for thousands of years by people of the Mayan culture.
It is a potent healing and heart-opening elixir containing wisdom from papatuanuku, and is used in ceremony in the form of a hot drink, to help us connect with our heart space. Often cacao can leave us feeling blissful, grounded and with our hearts wide open to receive.
I made this cacao cake recipe to invite more cacao into my Mother Blessing, and it was such a decadent treat 😋 I’m sharing with you to inspire some yummy baking for mamas-to-be in their mother blessings too x
Mother Blessing Cacao Cake Recipe
Ingredients for the cake:
◌ 100g dark chocolate - I use Whittakas 92% dark bar
◌ 2 Tbsp coconut oil
◌ 24 cacao paste buttons or 30 grams (OR 3 Tbsp cacao powder)
◌ 175g unsalted butter
◌ 1Tbsp organic vanilla essence
◌ 1/2 cup coconut sugar
◌ 4 free-range eggs
◌ 1 3/4 cups ground almonds
◌ A big dose of love
Ingredients for the top:
◌ A sprinkle of cacao powder
◌ Fresh flowers or herbs (rosemary is a goodie) to decorate
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 170°C Line a 20cm/8" cake tin with baking paper.
Melt the dark chocolate, cacao paste, coconut oil and butter together in a saucepan over low heat until fully melted. Set aside to cool.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the cooled chocolate mixture with vanilla and sugar. One by one add the eggs, mixing between each addition. Finally mix in the ground almonds.
Pour into the tin and bake for approximately 30 minutes. The cake is ready once firm to the touch and a knife inserted comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
Once the cake is fully cooled, dust over some cacao powder and decorate with fresh flowers or herbs.
Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place for up to 3 days.
Enjoy! ♡