Hey, Roaring Foodies!

Hope you're having a great day! The #PlantPoweronHive community certainly is, as we are celebrating another year of plantbased deliciousness and love on Hive.

A big thank you for Hive account@inleo, Hive account@sagarkothari88, Hive account@solarisfuture, and Hive account@liotes for sponsoring this challenge 💚 ..And for Hive account@sirenahippie because she's an awesome community leader ❤️

Sorry I'm late, but I had a lot of trouble getting the markdown right--first time using InLeo; that's why 🤫 Anyway, Huge congrats on another successful year on Hive!

This is a beautiful community, and I'm always happy to post my content here ❤️ This time, I've brought a fruit & chocolate cake that is moist and soft for everyone to enjoy a piece of sweetness with an incredible citrusy-vanilla-chocolate aroma 😁

The texture of the cake is super important to please the party guests. And although this party is virtual, this is no less important.

...Then I made sure to choose well among the few but substantial ingredients I had at home: a mix of wheat flour and homemade coconut flour--I made myself--, citrus fruits to soften the crumb of the cake (really important because we aren't using any eggs for obvious reasons), cinnamon and vanilla to enhance the delicious fruity scents, and bitter chocolate to give the contrast of flavor that pleasantly surprises our taste buds to make us sigh at every bite.

I was inspired and felt like adding fresh grapes. What a good decision.

This is the kind of cake children and adults like and if you want to make it gluten free, just use twice as much coconut flour and add a cup of cornstarch and half a cup of coconut oil.

INGREDIENTS

Cake:

3/4 cups pitted grapes
50 gr dark chocolate bits
75 gr margarine (salted)
3/4 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cup all purpose wheat flour
3/4 cups (homemade) coconut flour
3/4 cups (homemade) coconut milk
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 teaspoons vanilla essence
3/4 cups fruit sauce 👇
Fruit sauce 👇
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
4 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 cup diced red apple
2 cups chopped pineapple
half a cinnamon stick
2 tablespoons orange peel

Chocolate Glaze:

1/2 cup (homemade) cane honey
1/4 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 tablespoon margarine (salted)
1 tablespoon coconut oil

Garnish:

A few grapes in their bunch, a couple of orange slices, a couple of green cherries, and of course, a birthday candle.

THE PROCESS

I started out with the fruit sauce. I needed it cool for the cake mix.

With the help of a fork, I squeezed the oranges...

I peeled and diced the apple and added it into the cooking pot, along with the sugar, salt, half a cinnamon stick (broken), and some orange peel I finely chopped. It'd cook over medium heat while I took care of the pineapple.

I peeled and chopped the pinapple.

It took about 10 minutes, just enough time for the apple chunks to become tender. I took them out and used the same syrup to cook the pineapple (I was using a small saucepan).

While the fruit sauce was cooling, I started making the cake mix.

First, I mixed the margarine, sugar, and coconut oil. After it became creamy, I added the coconut milk, the last bit I had in the fridge.

I mixed it well until it looked homogeneous.

I added the ground cinnamon and vanilla essence and mixed well.

Now it was time for the flours.

I sifted the wheat flour in the bowl and immediately after it, I added the coconut flour.

I folded it until it became a paste.

I added the fruit sauce without most of the sauce.

It was time to add the sauce... I went little by little & mixing every time.

I added the baking soda & some lemon juice to incorporate air into the mixture. Then I mixed it well again...

Finally, it was time to grease a baking pan to pour in the cake mix and bake this cake

I used the one for pies. It had the right size.

The mixture went into the greased baking pan.

Now only the grape & chocolate chunks were missing.

I chopped the chocolate, pitted and chopped the grapes...

And covetred the cake with them.

The cake baked for 70 minutes at 300° F in my little electric oven.

Chocolate Glaze 🙃

I used what I had, and the result was good.

I mixed the cane honey and cocoa powder, then added the last bit of coconut oil, and brought the mixture to a simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly for 5 minutes.