So, what do you do when you are going to visit friends, you want to bake some of your mum's chocolate slice to give them, but one is gluten- and dairy- (and possibly egg) intolerant? Why, you modify, of course!
I made a trial batch of this and took it into work today to foist on my colleagues. 100% of the feedback I got was positive, with one person also asking for the recipe. Ahh, the power of my mum's chocolate slice is awesome. Hehe, at school I used to trade my morning tea of chocolate slice for muesli bars and roll-ups. I know, crazy, huh? But I always had home-made stuff cos we couldn't afford the other things, so of course what did I want?
Anyway, here's the modified recipe. The original calls for wheat flour, butter, and egg in place of the modifications I made, and I had to do more than just substitute ingredients - I had to change the way it was prepared a little too. Many thanks to Cindy for her advice on egg replacement products: you gave me much more of an idea of what I would be dealing with.
Chocolate Coconut Slice
1 cup almond meal
1 tsp bicarb soda
2 tbl cocoa powder
2/3 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
125g good quality oil
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 (heaped) tsp Orgran no-egg, mixed with 2 tbl water
Preheat the oven to 170-180C. Line a slice tin with baking paper, with paper extending up two sides.
Stir the almond meal and cocoa together, then stir in the sugar. Make a well in the centre, add the oil, vanilla, and no-egg mixture. Stir to combine. Add the coconut and stir. It should resemble cake batter. If it's too runny, add a little more almond meal.
Press the mix into the slice tin, evening it out and flattening the top. Bake 25-30 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave in the tin until completely cooled.
Top with chocolate icing (mix 1 cup icing sugar with 1 tbl cocoa, then slowly add hot water until you have the consistency you want).
2 comments:
Mmmm, looks good - and I have all those ingredients in the cupboard most of the time! I'll have to try this out on my vegan friends.
That's one of the things I really like about this - I usually have the ingredients already so it feels like it costs nothing to make.
Without the flour/butter/egg it has a "normal" cakey-slice texture, but done this way I think it's more fudgy-chewy... but still good!
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