Unusual Chickpea and Lime Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
8-12
ingredients
- 8 ounces canned chick-peas, drained weight (240g, or 1 can)
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄3 cup sugar or 1/3 cup fructose
- 2 limes, juice and zest of
- 1 tablespoon poppy seed
directions
- Grease and line the base of a 9" cake tin.
- Preheat the oven to 350F (175C).
- Put the chickpeas in the food processor and blitz until smooth.
- Mix in the eggs, sugar/fructose, the poppy seeds, the lime zest and half of the lime juice (keeping the remaining half of the lime juice for later).
- Pour the mixture into the cake tin, and bake for about 45 minutes, until firm and brown. If it looks as though it's getting too dark, cover with tin foil.
- Allow the cake to cool in its tin for a quarter of an hour, then pour over the remaining lime juice.
- Allow to finish cooling, then remove from the tin.
- Serve in small slices.
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Reviews
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Taste-wise, this cake was good. A little chickpea taste remained, but it had nice texture. I used lemon rather than lime, but the citrus taste was strong and clear and fresh. It baked in about 40 minutes and hardly coloured at all. Unfortunately, the cake is extremely fragile and probably best made in a springform pan rather than a cake tin; mine shattered when I went to turn it out.