Win: Quinoa Chocolate Cake with Cooked Icing and Strawberry filling

So I was doing a little bit of research, trying to find a flourless chocolate cake recipe that did not involve ground almonds/almond flour and for different ways to use quinoa and this is what I came across. Essentially, this is a flourless chocolate cake that uses quinoa (an alternative grain, alright for celiacs) as the main ingredient. Also, this is one of the few recipes that calls for cooked quinoa instead of quinoa flour, which is what I was looking for. The results, which you can see below, churned out a super dense chocolate cake similar in texture to a moist pound cake that is extremely rich and tasty. You only need a small piece to satisfy your choclate craving. All I can say is yummy...

Here are the links for the cake and the icing should you decide to try and recreate this.

The cooked icing

Mmm, quinoa

The strawberry filling

The wet ingredients + quinoa

The finished cake

Tagalog Word of the Day: Latik

Latik- that crunchy stuff on top of some filipino desserts (usually the gummy, otherwise textureless ones)

Pronunced as 'la-teek' NOT 'lah-tick'. The second will get you laughed at by a filipino mom (I speak from experience)