Quinoa Mace Cake
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons ground mace
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Butter and flour a 13-by-9-inch baking dish.
- Cook the quinoa in a pot of boiling salted water until it is tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Drain the quinoa in a sieve and let it cool to room warm.
- Place the quinoa back in the pot and stir in the butter and milk over low heat, until the butter is melted.
- Reserve.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the eggs and sugar on high speed until the mixture has almost tripled in volume 8 to 10 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, mace, baking powder and 3/4 teaspoon salt, then beat the flour mixture into the egg mixture until combined.
- Stir in the quinoa mixture (batter with be quite wet).
- Pour the batter into the buttered dish.
- Stir together the remaining 1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon mace, then sprinkle the mace-sugar evenly over the batter.
- Bake the cake until a tester comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
- Let cook to room temperature, then cut into slices and serve with whipped cream.
quinoa, kosher salt, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, flour, ground mace, baking powder
Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/quinoa-mace-cake (may not work)