Chocolate and Polenta Cake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    12

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
World's Best Cakes: 250 great cakes from Raspberry Genoise to Chocolate Kugelhopf

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

  • About

In Roman times, polenta was the staple of the mighty Roman Legions, who would eat it in a porridge or baked hard into a ‘cake’. Fortunately, we don’t have to limit our eating to polenta porridge and instead can use this grain in baking to create a pleasantly crumbly and grainy texture, as in this cake.

Ingredients

  • 320 g (11¼ oz) butter, softened
  • 320 g (11¼

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/310°F/gas mark 2½, and grease a deep 21cm (8in) square cake tin.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  3. Stir in the sifted cocoa powder, ground almonds, polenta and baking powder.
  4. Add i