Ooey-Gooey Vegan Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 cups baked sweet potato (about 275 grams)
• 1 large organic orange
• 1 cup sweetener, such as Just Like Sugar Table Top natural chicory root sweetener, or 2 2/3 tablespoons PureLo Lo Han Sweetener by Swanson, or 3/4 cup raw honey, or your favorite sweetener.
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons chia seeds, ground fine
• 1/2 cup coconut butter, melted (Put the jar in a pan of hot water to melt)
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted (Put jar in pan of hot water)
Dry Ingredients:
• Pinch salt
• 1/4 teaspoon decaffeinated coffee powder or crystals
• 1/2 cup pure cacao powder
• 2 tablespoons carob powder (optional for darker brown color)
• 1 1/2 cups almond meal/flour

Instructions

1. Cut a circle of parchment paper to line an 8-inch round pan or springform pan. Preheat oven to 350º F.
Wet Ingredients:
2. Spoon the sweet potato into a food processor or blender.
3. Zest the orange into the machine. A micro-plane grater is helpful. Save an orange slice for a garnish, if you want. Use a knife to cut away the bitter white outer pith from the orange. If your orange has seeds, slice it crossways and remove seeds from each slice with the tip of a knife. Place orange pulp in the machine.
4. Add sweetener and vanilla to the machine. Process well until orange pulp is liquefied and it is smooth and creamy.
5. Add chia seeds to the machine and mix well to grind as much as possible. Add coconut butter, coconut oil and mix again.
Dry Ingredients:
6. Add salt, coffee powder, cacao, and optional carob, to the mixture in the food processor. Process well. Add almond meal last and mix well again. (If you're not using a food processor, you can mix the dry ingredients by hand in a mixing bowl. In that case it's best to sift in the coffee, cacao and carob to avoid lumps. Then add the wet ingredients to the mixing bowl and stir.)
Bake & Serve:
7. Spoon batter into baking pan and spread smooth. Bake 35 minutes. Cool in the pan for at least 2 hours. It takes time for it to cool to room temperature, and then the cake will be firm. Remove to a serving plate.
8. Serve with Paleo Chocolate Sauce or a slice of orange. Enjoy!