The Affinities Cake

Name: The Affinities Cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: Grenada
Ingredients: fresh pink rose petals, to decorate; 100 g ground almonds; 400 ml prune juice; 150 ml whipping cream; 200 g golden caster sugar; 170 g good quality dark chocolate; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 75 g unsweetened cocoa powder; 200 g plain flour; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 tbsp good quality balsamic vinegar; 6 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing; A small pinch of salt

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rococo

By Chantal Coady

Published 2012

About

I came across a simpler version of this vegan-friendly cake in Grenada, when it was made for Mott Green, co-founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company, by Kate Bauman at Almost Paradise Cottages. My version of the ‘volcanic’ cake was created for the 10th anniversary of Deutsche Bank and Solomon R. Guggenheim’s collaboration. It is a triumph of alchemy and is very simple to make. The iced cake improves with being kept for a day.

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1 year ago from United Kingdom

I had some prune juice to use up so sourced a recipe and this one came up. I decided to make the cake in two cake tins. I shortened the cooking time initially but continued to bake it as it wasn’t fully cooked. The cakes took the full hour to bake. I had enough icing to cover the two combined cakes.
This resulted in a rich tasty chocolate cake best eaten in small pieces.
I took the cake to a family gathering. The verdict was that they liked the cake. If I have prune juice in the future it will be one to make. With the added bonus of it helping the digestive system. 😊

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