Whole wheat chocolate cake recipe.

It's one of those go-slow Friday mornings for me. I've struggled with a cold (and the horrendous cold sores that came with it!) for the last week, but haven't really stopped doing. My brain is working a at a thousand clicks a minute at the moment as I work on learning with my goat, getting the veggie garden ready for summer crops, working on belly dance projects, making Christmas presents, doing the spring cleaning and sprucing up around here, enjoying school hols and all the other regular stuff too. There is so much happening in my head that I go to sleep late and wake up at 5am each morning - wide awake, raring to go. Last night I had a fabulous dance session with one of my favourite people - we chatted over a cuppa, then cranked the music and finished creating a really beautiful, slinky, slow and clever (if I do say so myself) dance.  I can feel the effects of the dance in my body and catch myself doing the moves all the time (I think Jorgie was impressed 😊). But this morning I'm tired, so I'm taking some time out with a pot of tea before my world starts racing again, and feeling grateful that I wrote the draft of the following post earlier in the week.  Have a lovely weekend.....

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 One of my main reasons for buying a thermomix was to be able to grind wheat to make my baked goods more nutritious.  I don't grind wheat (at least not always) for my sourdough breads, but I've been trying to for other breads, pancakes, pastry, pasta, muffins, biscuits etc.

Today I adapted a chocolate cake recipe using my home ground wheat.   The cake was slightly gritty in texture because I didn't grind the wheat fine enough, but it was moist and very tasty nonetheless and with all that bonus fibre and fresh ground wheat goodness in it, I can almost ignore all the sugar and butter and think it healthy! ;)
 

The un-iced cake cooling.  It is quite a flat cake, but feels lovely and springy.

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I'll write the instructions for both thermomix users and non-thermomix users. 

• 250g wheat, ground to flour
• 4tbsp cacao or cocoa (more or less depending on how chocolatey you like things)
• 2dsp baking powder
• 100g raw sugar
• 100g brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 250ml milk
• 200g softened butter

1. In the thermomix, I started by grinding my wheat - about 90sec/speed 9. Use a grinder if you don't have a thermomix, or you could use purchased whole wheat flour, then transfer to a food processor or bowl of a mixer. 
2. Add other dry ingredients. Turbo a few times to mix if using a thermomix, or pulse in a food processor or stir if using a mixer. 
3. Add all of your wet ingredients. Thermomix users, 30sec/speed 5, scrape down and repeat. All others, beat well for a few minutes. 
4. Pour into a greased and lined cake tin and bake at 180 for 45min (or until cooked). 
5. Turn cake out to cool on a rack. Ice (I made a very basic melted butter and water chocolate icing, but use whatever you like) and enjoy!