You will not believe this one! It is so good for you, it could be eaten for dinner instead! Serve it up to your family and they will never believe that healthy food can taste so good. 

Serves 8

Ingredients  

1x 400g can chickpeas (drained and rinsed)
130 g Zucchini (Courgette)
1 Tbsp Cocoa powder
1/2 Cup Drinking chocolate powder
1/4 Cup Honey
1/4 Cup Freshly squeezed orange juice
2 Eggs - Free range, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp Baking powder (Gluten Free)

Method

Preheat your oven to 175C / 350F / Gas 4.

Grease and lightly flour a non-stick (20cm or 8" round) shallow cake tin.

Combine drained chickpeas and zucchini (leave the skin on) in a food processor. Add to this the cocoa powder, drinking chocolate powder, honey, orange juice, eggs and baking powder.

Blend all the ingredients until you get a nice, smooth consistency, then pour the mixture into the greased tin. Place into the oven, and bake for about 50 minutes. You can test to make sure it is ready by inserting a skewer into the cake then pulling it out. If it comes out clean it is done.

Cool for 10 minutes in the cake tin, then serve.

Notes & tips:

- Our favourite way to serve this is with a dollop of thickened cream and fresh strawberries. Amazingly delicious! This always tastes even better the following day, I am not sure why... but it's a good reason to cook two cakes at once!
- You can buy chickpeas in a can it saves having to cook them. This applies to all beans and lentils, making the canned variety quick and easy. And make sure you drain and rinse them!
- If you want to prepare chickpeas from scratch you can buy them dry in the supermarket, but be sure to correctly prepare them. If you do this you only need approx 260 grams of cooked and drained chickpeas for this recipe, as most of what you pay for in the can is just water!
- If the weather is quite wet outside you might need to add less liquid, so add the juice slowly until you get the correct consistency.