It is incredibly hard to find recipes that use wet spent grains. the grains are required to be dried and made into flour. I tried that once. Never again. I don’t care how good the bread is,I will never try this at home. Drying out the grains in the oven takes hours, if not days. At least, it did for me. Leaving the oven run for several hours costs energy and money, not to mention the energy and money it costs to cool your house from the excessive and prolonged heat source in the warmer months. Then, you grind up the dried grains in a food processor, and you have spent grain flour! The problem is, most recipes you can’t use all spent grain flour, so you still have to include regular flour. And to me, that’s just not worth it. If I wanted a cake made from spent grains, I would order some from custom restaurant's websites.
This will save my time and energy.
Anyway my husband wanted me to make it so I made it with a promise that we will never make it at home.
Ingredients:
½ C butter
1 C sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 C cocoa powder
Vanilla extract, to taste
2 eggs
½ C flour
½ C wet spent grains, ground up
Instructions:
To Prepare the Grains:
Put all of the grains into a small food processor (I used my handy-dandy Ninja) or blender and process until it becomes smooth. Add a bit of water at a time if necessary to make processing the grains easier. Don't worry about getting it super-smooth, you just don't want the pieces too big.
Now, the Magic Happens:
Melt the butter, then mix in the sugar and salt
Mix in cocoa powder and stir to combine.
Mix in vanilla and eggs.
Add flour and mix well.
Add processed wet spent grains, mix thoroughly. You can add however much more you would like, just be careful to not overdo because you don't want to get a mouthful of grain husks. Mixture should be runny and liquid.
Pour batter into a greased pan (I used a glass 6 x 8 and it fit perfectly)
Bake 30-45 minutes, until a toothpick come out mostly clean.
