Moroccan chocolate cake recipe

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  • Cuisine: Moroccan
  • Prep Time: 20 min(s)
  • Cook Time: 25 min(s)
  • Serves 8

Chef Hassan M'Souli from Sydney's Out of Africa restaurant brings us his version of an exotic Moroccan cake, which mixes dates, nuts and chocolate.

Looking for a more traditional version of this dessert? Try Matthew Evans' chocolate cake recipe, which won him third place at the Bream Creek Show.

Ingredients

10 egg whites
½ cup caster sugar
2 tbsp self-raising flour
1 cup chopped dark chocolate
1 cup chopped fresh dates
1 cup chopped roasted almonds
Icing sugar, to dust
Chocolate sauce, to serve
Strawberries, to garnish
Ice-cream, to serve
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Preparation

Pre-heat to 200°C. Grease and line a 22cm/7cm deep round cake tin.

In a clean, dry bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff, adding the caster sugar and flour a little at a time. Fold in the chocolate, dates and almonds.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Bake the cake for 15 minutes or until the cake rises. Reduce heat to 100°C and cook for a further 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool slightly.

Dust with icing sugar. To serve, cut into wedges and drizzle with chocolate sauce, garnish with strawberries and serve with ice-cream.

If you enjoyed this Moroccan chocolate cake recipe then browse more Moroccan recipes, cake recipes, chocolate recipes, baking recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

Moroccan Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 55 Moroccan Restaurants.

  Restaurant Book Online Suburb
1. Builders Arms Hotel, bandroom   Fitzroy
2. Moroccan Soup Bar   Fitzroy North
3. African Feeling   Newtown
4. Alhambra   Manly
5. Out of Africa   Manly
6. Kazbah On Darling   Balmain
7. Cafe Mint   Surry Hills
8. Sumac   Sydney
9. Little Moorish Restaurant   East Perth
10. Veritas Restaurant   Highgate

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Comments (4)

   
28 Sep 2011 05:03 AEST
Jenny
Central Coast NSW
Moroccan Chocolate, Nut and Date Cake
I made this today after having it at my Daughter-in-Laws on the weekend. I halved the ingredients, substituted the flour for Hazel nut meal and added 1 teaspoon baking powder (I wasn't sure if it needed the baking powder). It turned out fantastic. I halved the ingredients just in case it didn't turn out, that way it wasn't as costly and made 2 small cake tin (small pudding) size cakes. A great gluten free recipe and I will definitely make it again, especially for guests!!!
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25 Sep 2011 07:55 AEST
Jenny
The Central Coast NSW
Moroccan Chocolate, Nut and Date Cake
My daughter-in-law cooked this for dinner last night and it was to die for. Absolutely delicious!!!
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29 Jul 2011 02:42 AEST
Moroccan
safi
N'importe quoi!!!
I am Moroccan and this is the first time ever I hear of this pseudo-Moroccan chocolate cake... and I wanted to give it NO star, but the PC didn't allow me!!!
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26 Jul 2011 01:04 AEST
Inez Bardell
Indooroopilly
Gluten Free?
How is this gluten-free when it contains self-raising flour?
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