PDC Birthday: Manure cake! or is it??
Tahlea with her Chocolate “Manure”cake…
One of our PDC students had her birthday with us yesterday. In the morning we heard all sorts of requests for her birthday cake: a compost cake, a manure cake, a kale cake, even a humanure cake! So we did some creative baking and decorating and came up with a Gluten Free Vegan Chocolate Mud cake, decorated with kale and with a big lump of poo-looking chocolate on top!
I used 4 cups of GF flour mix (in this case the mix was Brown Rice Flour, Buckwheat Flour and Sorghum Flour), 1 1/3 cup of Rapadura Sugar, 1 1/2Tbs Aluminium Free & Gluten Free baking powder, 2 Tbs Cacao, 2 handfuls of each dark and white chocolate chips. I mixed that thoroughly then added water to make a sticky but not dry dough. I melted 1 1/2 bars of dark cooking chocolate on a double boiler and added that to the dough. This was put into a large baking tin and put into the oven at 180° Celsius for around 1/2 hour, until the middle was firm and springy.
We let the cake cool. I left the decorating to Brad, our long term volunteer, who melted another 1 1/2 bars of cooking chocolate. Some of the melted chocolate was spread over the whole cake, and enough was left over to create a large chocolate “poo” mound in the middle. Kale leaves were put on the corners of the cake and a candle sat in the middle. Voila, the chocolate “manure” cake!
Author: Zaia Kendall
Zaia grew up in a family of musicians in Holland, and has a background in top sport (snow skiing) and web development and design. She co-founded the PRI Luganville and PRI Sunshine Coast Inc (now PermEco Inc.) with Tom, and runs the “invisible structures”, like finances, business administration, website design and maintenance, writes articles and records and edits videos. She assists Tom in running the Kendall Permaculture Farm and supervising other volunteers. She is an active member of several musical projects and bands, involved in community music and runs percussion and marimba workshops, is the percussion leader for the Woodford Folk Festival People’s Orchestra and composes as well as plays music. She is passionate about community music and loves seeing people discover that they can play!
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