Ingredients for the base

200 gr Mulino Marello brown rice flour

50 gr Mulino Marello buckwheat flour

50 g organic almond flour

Half a sachet of natural yeast

50 ml rice oil

a spoonful of rice syrup (optional)

Approximately 300 ml of organic rice or rice/almond vegetable drink

50 g dark chocolate at least 72%

a spoonful of carobs or organic cocoa

Ingredients for the cream

300 ml organic rice or rice/almond milk

30 g Mulino Marello rice semolina

A spoonful of maple syrup

2 tablespoons of organic bitter cocoa

Procedure

Start with the cocoa cream. In a saucepan, mix the flour, cocoa and maple syrup into the vegetable drink. Boil and thicken. Keep the cream aside and in the meantime prepare the cake. Mix the flours, the natural yeast, add the chocolate melted in a bain-marie, the oil, the vegetable drink and, if desired, a spoonful of maple syrup. Pour into the cake tin, add the cream on top and cook at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. Turn off the oven and let the cake rest for about another 20 minutes. Leave to cool and serve the cake dusted with almond flour or cocoa, cinnamon or accompany it with vegetable whipped cream.

Curiosity

When we choose to embrace a healthier lifestyle and we orient ourselves by choice or necessity towards gluten-free and towards recipes of plant origin or in any case recipes without ingredients such as milk, derivatives and eggs which can cause intolerances and allergies, we understand that renunciation or sacrifice are not at all necessary.

We can create delicious, delicious and satisfying dishes, which can also gain approval among those who are used to more intense flavors and more artificial products.

It really follows that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy a delicious dessert without sins of gluttony and without risking unpleasant side effects.

And right now Valentine's Day can be the right opportunity to offer your partner a dessert like this, delicate, digestible, tasty to enjoy together without feeling guilty and without weights in the stomach!

The ingredients are absolutely chosen from the aphrodisiacs par excellence, namely chocolate and almonds.

In fact, I remember that the chocolate as long as it's dark it is a source of phenylethylamine, a substance that is also produced by our body when we are in love and which releases dopamine in the pleasure centers of the brain. It stimulates feelings of excitement, attraction and euphoria thanks to tryptophan, an important amino acid for increasing serotonin, the main neurotransmitter for the production of pleasure and relaxation.

Le almonds, however, thanks to the important content of vitamin E, they act directly on sexual desire. They seem to be able to stimulate fertility and increase passion, especially in women. Already in the Middle Ages, the custom of giving almond sweets with the wish of fertility and prosperity spread.

I would say that this cake is a must try!

The union between the soft base and the cream on the surface creates a whole and a truly pleasant general sensation of softness! And if you decide to present the cake with soy vegetable whipped cream or cocoa almond cream, the result is even more guaranteed!

Article by Dr. Isabella Vendrame - food coach psychologist, writer and popularizer.