~ Orange Cranberry Chickpea Cake

Adapted from:
Smallest Smallholding

Ingredients:
240 g chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 egg
100 g brown sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
Zest and juice of 1 orange
50 g of dried cranberry and raisin mix (or any fruit mix), plumped with orange juice

Directions: 
1) Blend chickpeas, egg, sugar, baking powder and 1 tbsp of orange juice in a blender till smooth.
2) Stir in dried fruits and zest.
3) Pour into a greased round tin and bake in a preheated oven at 150 deg for 40 min, or till brown.
4) Spoon orange juice over cake and cool before removing from the tin. Dust with icing sugar if desired.

Remarks:  
Ahh I lost the pictures!!!


Wouldn't call this a cake - it seems very crumbly, maybe another egg might do the trick? It is somewhat like eating mashed potatoes with cranberries. I would probably reduce the sugar as the dried fruits are very sweet already.