This recipe is translated from Cookpad Italy. See original: ItalyTorta d'autunno con noci, caffè e cioccolato

Autumn Cake with Walnuts, Coffee, and Chocolate

Daniela Innamorati
Daniela Innamorati @danielainnamorati

I choose to cook to keep family traditions alive and pass them on to my children, hoping they will remember them fondly when they grow up! ❤️
When I met my husband and his family years ago, I fell in love with a cake his mother always made, featuring walnuts, chocolate, and coffee (I love all three of these ingredients!)... Since I first tasted it, I decided to make it every year during the first walnut harvest: this is my entirely plant-based version, soft, perfectly moist, and delicious enough to make you swoon! 😍

Autumn Cake with Walnuts, Coffee, and Chocolate

I choose to cook to keep family traditions alive and pass them on to my children, hoping they will remember them fondly when they grow up! ❤️
When I met my husband and his family years ago, I fell in love with a cake his mother always made, featuring walnuts, chocolate, and coffee (I love all three of these ingredients!)... Since I first tasted it, I decided to make it every year during the first walnut harvest: this is my entirely plant-based version, soft, perfectly moist, and delicious enough to make you swoon! 😍

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 minutes
1 8-inch cake
  1. 2 cupsspelt flour (about 260 grams)
  2. 1/2 cupraw cane sugar (about 120 grams)
  3. 1 tablespoonbaking powder (about 16 grams)
  4. 1/2 cupwalnut pieces (about 50 grams)
  5. 1/4 cupdark chocolate chips (about 50 grams)
  6. 1/2 cupplant-based butter (about 100 grams)
  7. 1/3 cupespresso coffee (about 100 ml)
  8. 1/3 cupunsweetened plant-based milk (about 80 ml, or use water)
  9. 9whole walnut halves for garnish
  10. Powdered sugar for dusting

Cooking Instructions

1 hour 30 minutes
  1. 1

    Combine the dry ingredients (spelt flour, raw cane sugar, baking powder) in a bowl and mix with a whisk to distribute evenly.

  2. 2

    Add the roughly chopped walnut pieces and dark chocolate chips, and mix again.

  3. 3

    Now add the melted and cooled plant-based butter, room temperature espresso coffee, and unsweetened plant-based milk (or water), stirring with a spatula just until the liquid ingredients are incorporated and no lumps remain.

  4. 4

    Pour the batter into a greased and floured 8-inch springform pan and decorate the top with whole walnut halves.

  5. 5

    COOKING METHOD 1: Place in an air fryer and bake at 300°F for 50 minutes, checking doneness with a toothpick 5-10 minutes before the end.

  6. 6

    COOKING METHOD 2: Bake in a preheated oven at 340°F (static) for 50 minutes, checking doneness with a toothpick 5-10 minutes before the end.

  7. 7

    Remove and let cool completely in the pan, then remove from the pan, dust with powdered sugar, and serve.

  8. 8

    NOTE: I wanted a nice tall cake, so I deliberately chose a smaller pan. If you prefer a shorter cake, use a 9-10 inch pan and slightly reduce the baking time (about 5-10 minutes), always doing the toothpick test a few minutes before the end.

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Sono una mamma, lavoratrice, che ha scelto di costruire un futuro migliore per la propria famiglia anche attraverso l'alimentazione e l'attenzione verso l'ambiente, perché siamo noi l'esempio per le prossime generazioni. Si pensa troppo spesso che seguire un'alimentazione biologica sia difficile, impegnativo e troppo costoso... nulla di più sbagliato! Il mio intento è dimostrare che basta solo volerlo e il cambiamento è a portata di mano. Migliorare le nostre abitudini alimentari è molto più facile di quanto si pensi: viviamo in un territorio ricco di tipicità, varietà e prodotti di qualità elevatissima! Basta iniziare da pochi e piccoli cambiamenti, un passo alla volta e si può arrivare anche molto lontano se si desidera!
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