Hey there!
I know, it’s been a while since I’ve last been active on here, but well life gets busy sometimes and blogging is in fact not my full time job. As a matter of fact, it is not my job at all, it is my hobby, my passion, something I love doing in my free time. Apparently I did not have a whole lot of the latter recently, at least according to my latest lack of recipe posts. Thinking back I didn’t feel like I was all that busy at the time, yet I am now realising that I had a whole lot of deadlines from university as well as work plus of course a life outside work, uni and blogging. I guess I sometimes don’t even realise myself how much I am actually doing. This is quite unusual for me as I am one of those people that just needs her alone time, I am serious here, sometimes I just need to be alone, sometimes I actually enjoy walking through the city all by myself, watching people and wondering what they are up to. Sometimes I love going on long walks, looking at trees and flowers while thinking about life. And sometimes when I desperately need that minute of me-time I bake, cakes, muffins, banana bread, you name it. And that brings me back to the actual purpose of today’s post, another recipe, hooray!
First of all this recipe involves blueberries and I surely know that they are so not in season right now (at least in Switzerladn they’re not). But I am really really bad at resisting all the beautiful looking berries at the supermarket, even though I am completely aware, that they are going to be much better later into the year. They are literally screaming at me: “Fanny, buy us, we want to be in one of your recipes!!!”
They are really..
Ok they’re not. But I still ended up buying a batch and decided to create a delicious blueberry chocolate loaf cake with them. And yes, it turned out AMAZING! Sweet, yet not too sweet, chocolatey, moist, just yummm!
- 1 cup apple sauce
- 1 tbs coconut oil, melted
- ⅓ cup agave
- 1tbs chia seeds mixed with 3tbs water
- a dash of salt
- ¼ tsp vanilla
- ¾ cup blueberries
- 1 cup spelt flour
- ¼ cup cacao powder
- 1tbs baking powder
- optional ingredients for topping:
- ⅓ cup blueberries
- 1tbs cacao nibs
- 25g dark chocolate (I used simply saintly 60% by conscious chocolate)
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Add the apple sauce, coconut oil, agave, vanillla, salt and the chia seed water mixture into a mixing bowl. Mix until well combined.
- Stift in the flour, the baking powder and cacao powder and then fold, mi until the batter has come together and then fold in the blueberries
- Pour the batter into a lined loaf tin.
- Top with additional blueberries, chocoalte and cacao nibs
- Bake for 40 mintues or until a tooth pick stuck into the middle comes out clean. Let it cool for a bit and then enjoy, I personally find it the most delicious when it’s still slightly wPreheat the oven to 180°C
So people, now as always, I highly suggest you to recreate this recipe. Print out this recipe, turn off your computer and get started. I’ll be back soon with another recipe, pinky promise!
Happy Sunday!
Bisous,
Fanny, i really love your ideas. Do not stop. In Brazil we do
Not have
This apple sauce as a already made
Ingredient. What is it? Can i make it myself? Could you give more details? Many thanks, Daniela
Hi Daniela, Thank you so much for your nice comment. Yes you can easily make apple sauce yourself, I just checked for a recipe online and I found this one: http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/applesauce-recipe-no-sugar/. If you’ve got left over apple sauce you can also enjoy it with a dollop of yogurt and granola for a delicious breakfast or I also love adding it to porridge:) Hope this helps. Have fun baking!!
Hello! This looks very good! Would it be okay if I left out the chia seeds? Thank you!
Hi Rita, the chia seeds act as a binding ingredient here, so I think you should add them, but you could substitute them with the same amount of linseed. If you haven’t got those either you could definitely try leaving them out, thogh I just can’t guarante you that you’ll end up with the exact same result. Have fun baking!!
hey fanny, thanks for this delicious recipe! at least it looks delicious…. and it definitely IS! so i literally have to try this cake next weekend as i’m the same as you: lots of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries in the fridge which were yelling in the shop at me! even more when they are 50 per cent off! and this is just one reason why i yearn to retry this recipe…. but before i get myself into the kitchen i’d like to know what you mean with ‘apple sauce’? kind of ‘apple juice’ or a liquid with a texture similar to agave or honey? aaaaand: what kind of ‘cups’ do you usually use to get your recipes as you like? i haven’t baked with cups yet as i’m afraid of picking completely wrong ‘cups’ with completely wrong sizes…? can you recommend a shop where i can buy this baking supplies?
thanks for your great work and this mouth-watering recipes week by week! GREAT!
Hi Larissa! Thank you so much for your comment. From your e-mail address I assume you are Swiss as well, so Apple Sauce is just Apfelmus. I used the unsweetened kind which is available at migros by the alnatura brand. Then to your questions about measuring cups. I think there is a standard measuring cup size, so the should all be the same size. I actually received mine as a present from America, that won’t help much. But I know that Sibler sells them and I think I’ve seen them at Globus as well, I am not sure about more affordable stores, though it might be worth checking ikea or interio. ALso I wrote a post about measurements recently, where I addeda little chart on how many grams of ingredients I use frequently equal one cup. Here’s the link: http://fannythefoodie.com/2016/02/17/2317/. So i hope this answer was helpful and have fun baking my delicious cake!!
Thank you. can a different flour (other than spelt) be used?
I haven’t tried it with any other flour, so I can’t tell you. You could definitely use regular flour, however, I am not sure about gluten-free alternatives.