Chocolate Quinoa Mini Bundt Cakes with Strawberries
Serve these Chocolate Quinoa Mini Bundt Cakes with Strawberries and Caramel Sauce at your next celebration. They're gluten-free and dairy-fee and decadently delicious!
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked quinoa * see note below
- ⅓ cup milk (almond coconut, or cow’s milk)
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup melted butter
- ¼ cup melted coconut oil
- 1 cup coconut palm sugar, organic cane sugar (or refined sugar) (Increase sugar to 1¼ or 1/1/2 cups for a sweeter product)
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ pint fresh strawberries (1 cup)
- fresh mint leaves for garnish
- powdered sugar for garnish optional
Instructions
- Cook ¾ cup dry quinoa in 1½ cups water. (¾ cup of quinoa cooked in 1½ cups water will yield approximately 2 cups of cooked quinoa.) Spread out on a baking sheet to cool.
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 6 mini bundt pans with coconut oil or butter.
- Mix the milk, eggs and vanilla in a blender or food processor.
- Add the cooked and cooled quinoa, butter, and coconut oil to the blender. This is where a high-speed blender like a Vitamix or a Blendtec comes in handy, as it will grind the cooked quinoa, preventing a lumpy texture in the cooked cake.
- Sift the sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and sea salt in a large bowl.
- Add the wet ingredients from the blender to the dry ingredients in the bowl and mix until thoroughly combined. Fill mini Bundt pans ¾ full, spreading to the edges.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove, let cool in tins for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack. Invert on to cooling rack. Let cool completely.
- Glaze with chocolate glaze, letting it run down the sides. Fill the cavity with a few sliced strawberries. Garnish with a mint leaf just before serving, if desired.
Notes
¾ cup of dry quinoa cooked in 1 ½ cups of water will yield approximately 2 cups of quinoa, but be sure to measure 2 cups once it's cooked. Sometimes I've found it will make a little more than 2 cups.