Name: Marshmallow chocolate cake
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Makes 1 medium cake serving
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 125 g dried apricots and dried pears or peaches, chopped; 100 g sunflower seeds toasted; 25 g sesame seeds toasted; 25 g pumpkin seeds; 80 ml cocoa powder; 6 eggs white; salt just a pinch; 50 g demerara sugar; 180 g sweetener; cocoa powder; chocolate coated almonds; to serve to serve; 125 g cream cheese low-fat; 125 ml whole garlic cloves unpeeled; 10 ml icing sugar

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Ingredients (15)

125 g	dried apricots and dried pears or peaches, chopped
100 g	sunflower seeds — toasted
25 g	sesame seeds — toasted
25 g	pumpkin seeds
80 ml	cocoa powder
6	eggs — white
	salt — just a pinch
50 g	demerara sugar
180 g	sweetener

TO FINISH

	cocoa powder
	chocolate coated almonds
	to serve — to serve
125 g	cream cheese — low-fat
125 ml	whole garlic cloves — unpeeled
10 ml	icing sugar

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Method:

Preheat
the oven to 160°C. Grease a 20cm square spring form tin with non-stick spray.
Line with baking paper and grease again.

1. Mix the
dried fruit, seeds and cocoa powder and set aside.

2. Put the
egg whites, salt, sugar and sweetener in a glass bowl. Put the bowl over a pot
with hot water – make sure the water doesn’t touch the bottom of the bowl. Then
put the pot and bowl on a heated stove plate.

3. Vigorously whisk with a wire whisk until the
sugar has dissolved.

4. Remove from the heat then whisk with an electric whisk for at least 7
minutes or until the meringue is thick and shiny.

5. Lightly fold the dried fruit mixture into the
meringue, then transfer to the prepared tin. Don’t smooth the top.

6. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer
inserted into the middle comes out clean (the cake should be spongy). Remove
from the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin until firmly set.

7. To finish: Carefully turn out onto a serving
plate. Sift cocoa powder over and sprinkle chocolate- coated almonds on top.

8. To serve: Mix the cream cheese, yoghurt and
icing sugar and serve with the cake.