Vegan Chocolate Cake
Hi again!
I found this marvellous vegan chocolate cake recipe while going through my teenage magazines. Right now I'm very happy I hadn't thrown them away!
Because it's vegan, the cake is both egg and dairy free, and I suppose it can be made of gluten-free flour, so I'd call it a party saver. Also, it tastes fabulous. The recipe says for 10, but the cake is so chocolatey I'd rather say it'll feed at least 15 people. Luckily I only made half batch, since there's just my family to eat this.
Vegan Chocolate Cake
The dough
200 g soft (silken) tofu
2,5 dl maple syrup
1,5 dl strong black coffee
0,5 dl cold water
2,5 dl wheat flour
2 dl dark cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla sugar
0,5 tsp cinnamon
The frosting
200 g soft (silken) tofu
200 g dark chocolate (dairy free)
1 tsp vanilla sugar
Moistening
0,5 dl strong black coffee
0,5 dl maple syrup
1. Mash the tofu with and electric mixer or the like. Add the maple suryp, coffee and water. Mix well. Mix together dry ingredients and add into the tofu-mix. Mix until smooth.
2. Divide the dough into two oiled 20 cm diameter cake pans and bake in 180 degrees Celcius for approx 15 - 20 minutes, until done. The consistency of the cake will resemble more that of a cheesecake than a sponge cake.
3. Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then flip on a piece of parchment paper and let cool completely.
4. Melt the chocolate for the frosting (I did mine in microwave oven). Mash the tofu, mix together tofu, melt chocolate and vanilla sugar.
5. Moisten the cake halves with coffee-syrup mix. Take a little less than half of the frosting and spread on one cake half. Lift the other half on top on this one and spread the rest of the frosting on top and sides of the cake. Let sit in the frigde for a while and enjoy!
The cake can be decorated with for example nuts or choco swirls.
Note: you can convert dl into cups with, for example, this: http://www.convertunits.com/from/deciliter/to/cup+%5Bmetric%5D
Now, let's hope I didn't mess anything up this time with posting. I'm good at messing up. I hope the admins are patient with me. Also, if there are any silly words or ununderstandable paragraphs, let me know! I'm not native English speaker, so I might make mistakes. :)
Love,
Aku