Sustainable Firstfruit's "Black Bean Chocolate Cake"

[big brown horse]

Here goes. I'm making the cake tonight. I just re-read the recipe and object STRONGLY to this line:

"Allow to fully cool and ideally, let sit for a few hours prior to serving."

Yeah, right.

We didn't wait either. Who waits for hot chocolate cake to cool???? That's madness!

Let us all know how it turns out.

 

[Dace]

Here goes. I'm making the cake tonight. I just re-read the recipe and object STRONGLY to this line:

"Allow to fully cool and ideally, let sit for a few hours prior to serving."

Yeah, right.

yeah my son also strongly objected to that idea.... I did wait about an hour to serve it. It was still warm and just as delish as it was when I had it for lunch today.... Stone cold.

 

[big brown horse]

Did your family know about or taste the beans?

Good isn't it?

 

[Dace]

Did you miss my post, on pg 4?

6 out of 7 were completely deceived! I am truly amazed and want to try more combos! I had it for lunch (after a plate of cherry tomatoes and avo of course

 

[big brown horse]

O. M. G.

OMG!!!!!! That cake is great!

Hubby was shocked when I whispered the truth to him while whipping up some fresh whipped cream. He had to try it immediately, claimed he would never have guessed.

Victim #2 was the little sickie, i mean princess. She had been feeling better and saw a cake with whipped cream on a cooking show and was drooling.....she delicately ate the whole thing, never said a word other that "really? I can have cake??"

Victim #3 Proclaimed loudly "This is AWESOME! It's just like the chocolate lava cake at Chilis!" ....um, not really

Victim #4 Thought is tasted different. This is also the child that could walk into a room at age three and demand to know who had been eating chocolate....so her senses are a bit more refined than the average.

Victims #5 & 6 Well, I have no idea how they responded as I was asleep when they hit the kitchen after work. I can only assume by the enormous dent in the cake that they liked it.

Thanks for posting this Sally! Great recipe!
I want to try white bean and lemon now!!!

Yup, I totally missed this post!

 

[freemotion]

Well, the cake was a success, we polished off 2/3 of it in seconds! Literally!

I adjusted the recipe, as promised earlier, and used 1/2 the honey and three squirts of liquid stevia (a squirt for me is about a half dropperful) and it was plenty sweet. One pint jar of plain black beans was the perfect amount.

It came out of the oven mounded high in the middle, and I put it on the porch to cool while we watched Survivor, recorded and ff through the commercials, so about 45 minutes at 40 degrees. The center fell. It was still lovely.

I had everyone guess on the "secret ingredient." No one got it, until I gave about a thousand hints. You shoulda heard the guesses. I must be really, really bad....they guessed things like sugar snap peas and lard!

 

[freemotion]

I'm going to send the recipe out to the class. I bet one out of 18 tries it, BBH, besides those who read this forum!

 

[Dace]

Glad you guys liked it too Free!

Last night my son said "too much of that cake is just too rich for me, I guess too much chocolate does that to me"

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Ok, hauling out the black beans to soak tonight.
I'm convinced!

 

[freemotion]

Off to make another black bean cake....this could be a problem.....