Ingredients

As with the clean chocolate cake, it is again a rather unusual creation with legumes. The result is that the "dough" gets exceptionally moist. The recipe is quick to make. The result is this easy healthy chickpea cake without egg, butter, flour and sugar.

While the chocolate cake was based on black beans, which fit better in terms of color, you take the light brown relatives for the low-calorie chickpea cake 😉 . So - what exactly is in this surprising creation? Since the cake should be without flour, sugar, dairy products, eggs, and butter, numerous substitute ingredients are necessary. Instead of white flour, I used oatmeal (in addition to the chickpeas), which should be glutenfree for people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Substitutes for butter, eggs, and cow's milk are coconut oil, unsweetened banana/applesauce, and plant-based "milk". I like oat milk the best.

How to make the Chickpea Cake

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Let's start with this extravagant recipe: Firstly, soak the raw chickpeas overnight, drain and weigh them. If you are using pre-cooked chickpeas from a (400 g) can, just drain them and rinse them with clean water. Now, preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C, grease a small springform pan with coconut oil, and refrigerate.

Next, chop the dates into small pieces and mix applesauce, coconut oil, and milk together. Grind the rolled oats into flour in a food processor. Add all ingredients, including the chickpeas, and blend until creamy. If you don't have a food processor, you can puree the liquid ingredients with the beans and then stir this purée into the dry ingredients using a food processor.

Now, pour the "dough" into the prepared pan, smooth it out, and bake for about 20-30 minutes. In the end, the cake may still be nice and soft but should no longer be raw. Let the cake cool in the pan, and top it with fruit or compote. The cake tastes best when it has been in the refrigerator overnight and is well done.

Top Tip

Dried dates and a bit of Xucker Bronxe or muscovado sugar result in the sweetness without industrial white sugar. Of course, this does not strictly make the low-calorie healthy chickpea cake sugar-free since dried fruits contain (natural) sugar. But the alternative comes with some other valuable nutritional values, while household sugar only contains empty energy.

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