Valentine’s Day Recipes

Chocolate Sweetheart Cake

Ingredients:

1 cup unbleached white flour

1/3 cup unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder -- PLUS"PLUS" means this

ingredient in addition to the one on the next line, often with divided uses

1 tablespoon unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder

2 tablespoons maple sugar -- or Sucanat

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup water

2 tablespoons canola oil

1/2 cup raspberry seedless all-fruit jam

1/3 cup maple syrup -- PLUS"PLUS" means this ingredient in addition to the

one on the next line, often with divided uses

1 tablespoon maple syrup

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

1 teaspoon almond extract

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

1 cup chocolate fudge sauce

2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries

nonstick cooking spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly coat a 9-inch heart-shaped pan with oil or nonstick

spray. Sift flour, cocoa powder, sweetener, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt and

cinnamon into a medium bowl and stir with a wire whisk to mix.

Measure milk, water, canola oil, 3 tablespoons jam, maple syrup, extracts and

vinegar into blender and blend on high speed one minute, until smooth and foamy.

Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients and whisk until batter is smooth. Pour

batter into prepared cake pan and bake on center rack of oven until cake is set,

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