Chocolate Pound Cake with Lavender Glaze Gluten Free
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 1 hour
Total time: 1 hour 10 mins
Ingredients
  • 1 cup dutch process cocoa
  • ⅔ cup boiling water
  • 250g softened unsalted butter, softened
  • 1⅔ cup brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup gluten free plain flour, sifted
  • 1 tsp baking soda, sifted
  • Lavender Glaze
  • 100g white chocolate, chopped
  • ¼ cup (60ml) pouring cream
  • 1 tsp culinary lavender
  • Optional - blueberry juice for colour (simmer handful of blueberries and strain juice)
Instructions
Conventional Method
  1. Preheat oven to 160°C.
  2. Combine cocoa and boiling water in a small bowl and mix until smooth.
  3. In a mixing bowl beat butter and sugar for a few minutes until light and fluffy.
  4. Add eggs, vanilla and chocolate mixture and beat until combined.
  5. Add baking soda and flour and beat until combined.
  6. Pour mixture into a greased loaf tin. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out dry. Remove from tin and cool completely.
  7. To make the lavender glaze, place the white chocolate, cream and lavender in a small saucepan and stir over low heat for a couple of minutes until combined. Add a few teaspoons of blueberry juice to create desired colour. Let the glaze sit for 10 min for the lavender flavour to infuse. Strain glaze to remove lavender pieces and then pour over cake.
Thermomix Method
  1. Preheat oven to 160°C.
  2. Combine cocoa and boiling water in a small bowl and mix until smooth.
  3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy in Thermomix speed 5/30 sec.
  4. Add eggs, vanilla and chocolate mixture to Thermomix and combine speed 5/20 sec.
  5. Add baking soda and flour to Thermomix and combine speed 5/10 sec.
  6. Pour mixture into a greased loaf tin. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out dry. Remove from tin and cool completely.
  7. To make the lavender glaze, place the white chocolate, cream and lavender in clean Thermomix bowl and mix 4 min/50C/speed 4. Add a few teaspoons of bluberry juice to create desired colour and mix 5 sec/speed 4. Let the glaze sit for 10 min for the lavender flavour to infuse. Strain glaze to remove lavender pieces and then pour over cake.
Recipe by Helen Tzouganatos at https://helentzouganatos.com/chocolate-pound-cake-with-lavender-glaze-gluten-free/