A really good vegan choccie cake!

[Breadandwine Profile Website]

Not only a very tasty cake, but extremely simple to make - and cheap as well, costing around 70p to make.

165g s/raising flour
30g cocoa powder
200g sugar
80g sunolive oil
250g water
2 tsps vanilla extract

Stir the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients, whisk together and pour into 2 18cm (7") lined cake tins.

Bake at 175C for 20 minutes.

I've had this sandwiched with jam and covered with chocolate water icing - and I've also iced it with my homemade vegan chocolate spread.

There are pics on my blog, plus a link to the chocolate spread:

http://nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk ... -this.html

Cheers, Paul

[hungryhousewife Profile]

Thanks Paul! That will be really useful!
HH

[Suelle Profile Website]

I put a post recommending this vegan chocolate passion cake on one of the other boards, but I'm not sure anyone noticed it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... nk.recipes

It's an excellent cake - I really wouldn't know there were no eggs in it. It's the only vegan cake i've been happy with, with regard to both texture and flavour.

Here's my account of it:
http://mainlybaking.blogspot.co.uk/2012 ... -cake.html

Lots of bloggers liked these vegan brownies, too, although I didn't like the soy aftertaste:
http://www.maplespice.com/2011/11/other ... art-2.html

[AZCook Profile]

What is sunlolive oil, Paul? Is it a mixture of sunflower and olive?

The chocolate passion cake looks really good, Suelle - your blog review is really useful as you cover a lot of the flavour and texture issues that often go with vegan baking.

I know most people probably wouldn't agree, but I think that extra virgin ollive rather than a flavourless oil always adds a lot of flavour body to pretty much anything including cakes.

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Hi Odette

You're right, it's a mixture of the two - off-hand (I don't have any in ATM) I think it's 80% sunflower oil and 20% olive oil.

When I first made it using olive oil, several people found what they described as an 'off-taste', so since then I've used a blander, vegetable or sunflower oil.

I shall have a go at the brownie recipe real soon, Sue, thanks!

Cheers, Paul

[mark111757 Profile]

paul

how about a choccie pie

http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/store ... tId=728618

i am presuming that you could source out similiar ingredients on your end

cheers!!!

[hungryhousewife Profile]

Wow! That looks so delicious!
HH