Prize-winning Chocolate Quinoa Cake

Edited to add: This cake won the Earlsfield Bake-Off!

This cake sounds weird but tastes yummy.  No one knew it had quinoa in it.  I made it as cupcakes, but forgot to take a picture.  Annoyingly it is an american recipe using cups.

Quinoa Chocolate Cake

2 cups cooked quinoa
1/3 cup milk
4 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat the oven to 160F and grease two 23 cm round cake pans; line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper – this cake is very moist, and it will make removing them much safer.

In a food processor, combine the milk, eggs and vanilla; add the cooked quinoa and the melted butter and blend until smooth.  Add the sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt and pulse until well blended.

Divide the batter evenly between the pans and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool completely in the pans before running a thin knife around the edges and inverting them onto plates.

(recipe from Dinner with Julie)