Chocolate and Peanut Cake (Gluten & Dairy Free)
Hello everyone, welcome to my latest recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Cake.
A beautiful sponge cake packed with little bits of chocolate and peanut topped with rich and creamy chocolate frosting - and all gluten and dairy free.
Other Baking Ideas
If you like this recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Cake then you might like to try one of my other baking recipes:
- Treat yourself with my Tiramisu (Gluten & Dairy Free)
- Go traditional with my Lemon Drizzle Cake (Gluten & Dairy Free)
- Make a some biscuits with my Shortbread Cookie Bars (Gluten & Dairy Free)
- Bake loaf cake with my recipe for Apple and Courgette Loaf (Gluten & Dairy Free)
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Ingredients
- 150 grams dairy free spread
- 150 grams caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 150 grams gluten free self raising flour
- 200 grams dairy free dark chocolate
- 100 grams peanuts
- 225 grams icing sugar
- 125 grams dairy free spread
- 25 grams cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon ground peanuts
- 1 tablespoon grated dairy free chocolate
For the cake:
For the topping:
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160 oC
- Grease and line an 8″ round cake tin
- Beat together the dairy free spread and caster sugar
- Beat in the eggs one at a time
- Stir in the flour
- Blitz the chocolate and peanuts in a blender or chop into tiny pieces
- Stir in the peanut and chocolate mix
- Pour into a cake tin and bake for 40 minutes
- Remove from the oven and cake tin and allow to cool completely before frosting
- Beat together the icing sugar, cocoa powder and dairy free spread until light and fluffy
- Cut the cake in half and sandwich the cakes together with half the frosting
- Spread the rest on top of the cake and top with the ground peanuts and grated chocolate
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