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Butternut Squash Cake SQ

Chocolate and butternut squash marble cake

Course: Snack
Cuisine: French
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

The butternut squash makes the cake really moist and the combination of vanilla, chocolate and squash is just amazing.

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Ingredients

  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 70 g butter
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 300 g butternut squash cooked and mashed
  • 130 g self-rising flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 70 g ground almonds
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 1 tbsp butternut squash seeds optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 180ºC.
  2. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie.
  3. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add the eggs, the butternut squash and mix until well combined.
  4. In another bowl, combine the self-rising our and the salt with the ground almonds. Add this to the previous mixture and mix until you get a smooth texture.

  5. Split the mixture between the two bowls. Add the melted chocolate to the first half of the mixture. Split the vanilla pod length-ways and using a teaspoon, scoop out the seeds into the second half of the mixture.

  6. Pour half of the chocolate mixture into a baking tin lined with parchment paper, then the vanilla mixture, then the second half of the chocolate mixture. Mix together slightly just so that the mixture is swirled. Add the butternut squash seeds on top.
  7. Bake in the oven for an hour, until a cake-tester/knife comes out clean.

Recipe Notes

My oven is a bit funny these days so last time I had to increase a bit the cooking time and cover the top with aluminium foil so as it would cook the cake inside without burning the top of it.