About the Recipe
Spinach cake is a unique and nutritious dessert made with spinach as a key ingredient. The spinach adds moisture and a vibrant green color to the cake while remaining undetectable in taste. Typically, the spinach is blended into a puree and then incorporated into the cake batter along with other traditional ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and flavorings such as vanilla or lemon zest. The resulting cake is moist, tender, and surprisingly delicious, offering a creative way to sneak in some extra greens into your diet.
Ingredients
Cake
200 gr spinach (just leaves, no stems)
Juice & zest from 1 lemon
6 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
200 gr light yellow sugar
6 eggs
1 Tbsp baking powder
250 gr flour
Ganache
200 mL heavy cream
200 g of good quality melting chocolate, broken in pieces
Preparation
Heat oven to 350F. Grease a bundt pan with butter and flour.
Add spinach, lemon juice and olive oil to a blender. Blend until smooth.
Mix eggs and sugar.
Add spinach blend to the eggs & sugar. Mix well.
Mix baking powder with flour and add slowly to the batter. Mix until combined with a wooden spoon. Do not overmix.
Transfer to the prepared pan and bake for 20 min or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Let it cool. Remove from pan into a serving plate.
Heat heavy cream until almost boiling point.
Add to the bowl with the chocolate and mix until smooth.
Pour chocolate over cooled cake. Enjoy!!