Strawberry Black Forest Cake

Made this last night for a friend's birthday. This ones as good as any other mud cake, only without the refined sugars and flour. The extra sugar and flour is replaced with sweet potato (same as with the brownies I made last week).

The cake is grain-less and made with less sugar than the usual chocolate mud cakes. Perfect cake for the birthday boy who wants to stay lean. Yummy but healthier - fingers cross that he agrees!

This cake is also suitable for gluten-free :)

Recipe:Ingredients:
(double if you want a double layer cake)

    Cake:

    1 medium white sweet potato, peeled and grated (using the larger holes of the grater)

    2 whole eggs
    3/4-1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder (depends how dark/rich/bitter you want the cake)
    2 tbsp coconut flour
    1/2 cup of melted raw honey   
    1/2 cup of melted coconut oil
    1 heaped tbsp of gluten free baking powder
    ½ tbsp of baking soda
    2 tsp vanilla extract
    125g stevia sweetened dark chocolate (or 70% Whittakers dark chocolate)
    3 tbsp unsweetened almond milk

    Garnish:
    Punnet of strawberries
    125g stevia sweetened dark chocolate (or 70% Whittakers dark chocolate)
    1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk  
     Extra chocolate if you want chunks of chocolate on top
   

Instructions:
   Cake:

   -          Preheat oven to 185 °C

-          Combine grated sweet potato, eggs, vanilla extract, honey and coconut oil until well mixed. Stir in baking powder and baking soda.  Mix in cocoa powder and coconut flour.

-     Add broken chunks of the chocolate and almond milk into the batter and mix.

-          Pour the mixture into a cake tray greased with coconut oil.

-          Cook for 25 minutes or until cooked.

-          Leave to cool and remove from tin

  
   Garnish:
   -          Melt the dark chocolate with the almond milk and stir frequently until cool and thick enough to
          not run down the side of cake
   -      Spread chocolate on cake and decorate with strawberries as you wish
   -      For a double layer cake add sliced strawberries onto the bottom layer, carefully place second
           second cake layer on top, add melted chocolate and layer with strawberries - I garnished it 
           with chucks of chocolate as you can never have enough chocolate right :D