Light and Lemon Chickpea Cake

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:44:54 GMT

Step 1

Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Grease two 8-inch round cake tins.

Step 2

Add the chickpeas to a food processor along with 4 tablespoons of the lemon juice, oil, lemon zest and egg yolks and blend well. Empty into a large bowl.

Step 3

Add the flour, half the sugar, baking powder, salt into the chickpea puree mixture and mix well.

Step 4

In another bowl, whisk egg whites until foamy. Gradually add the remaining half of the sugar slowly whist whisking the egg whites until the whites form peaks that are stiff.

Step 5

Fold the whisked egg white mixture into chickpea puree.

Step 6

Pour batter evenly into two 8-inch round cake tins.

Step 7

Bake in a preheated oven 175C for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick or knife inserted into center of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack, then turn cake out of pans onto rack to cool completely.

Step 8

Drizzle one tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice over each cake and use the tablespoon of icing sugar evenly between the two.

Step 9

Each cake serves 6

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