Roasted Cocoa Air Fryer Cakes
The additional flavour hit you get from roasting the cocoa is interesting and I am sure we will be using this method again elsewhere. DO IT.
The purpose behind roasting the cocoa is to enhance the chocolatey flavours. Adding heat to most things will bring out the natural sugars and thus increase our enjoyment of them, which is why we love caramelised anything...well I do at least. So employ this method elsewhere, especially if you have a less than thrilling chocolate cake recipe that needs a bit more oomph. (I am assuming this would never be needed for one of my recipes of course!)
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Need
- 40 Grams cocoa powder BUY
- 8 egg yolks
- 2 eggs
- 100 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 50 Grams bakers or strong flour
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper.
- 2
Sift cocoa over the tray and roast for 3 minutes. Cool. (Reserve some for later)
- 3
Preheat air fryer to 200°C. Line 5 small, individual cake tins with muffin liners or paper.
- 4
Place yolks, eggs and sugar into the Thermomix bowl and whip 4 min/Butterfly/speed 3. Remove Butterfly.
- 5
Sift flour and 30g of the roasted cocoa into the Thermomix bowl and incorporate 12 sec/Dough.
- 6
Divide batter among tins and place up to 4 at a time into the Air Fryer. Cook for 10 minutes. If you have a larger air fryer than me, you will find you may need less time to cook them. We also found the second batch cooked faster. So keep an eye on them, we prefer slightly underdone as opposed to overdone.
- 7
Dust with remaining roasted cocoa. Serve with cream, whipped or otherwise!
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
