DESSERT RECIPES
Finish off your meal with a sweet Mexican treat! Make sure that you've left room for these recipes.
Dessert Recipes
Black Sapote Cake
From 'Mexico The Cookbook' by Margarita Carrilo Arronte
The black sapote is a tropical fruit native to Mexico that is more commonly known as the chocolate pudding fruit, due to it's chocolatey taste.Ingredients
- 350g flour, plus extra for dusting
- 900g black sapote pulp
- 4 tbsp packed brown sugar
- 5 tbsp orange juice
- 5 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 300g sugar
- Butter, for greasing
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 175ml corn oil
- 120g sultanas
- 70g pumpkin seeds, toasted
Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 190°C.
- Grease and flour two 6-inch round cake tins.
- Combine the sapote pulp, brown sugar, and fruit juices in a bowl and mix well.
- Add the mashed banana and sugar.
- Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Gradually fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.
- Stir in the eggs, oil, sultanas, and pumpkin seeds.
- Divide the batter between the prepared cake tins. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until firm to the touch.
- Remove the tins from the oven, turn out the cake onto a wire rack and leave to cool. Slice and serve.
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