Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Cake

Hello :)

Today we are here with a new recipe, we made a chocolate cake to our friends and ourselves for Valentine's Day and since we have a group of friends who all have different requests for food, we were a little lost about what to do, since we had to make it low sugar, no dairy, no egg and delicious.

Eventually we found a low sugar vegan cake online and inspired by that we made our own. We used walnuts, cacao powder, agave nectar and cocnut oil for the base, inbetween the two layers we put peanut butter and for the top bit we used cacao powder, agave nectar and cocnut oil, so essentially we only needed five ingrediences and you could easily ditch the peanut butter and make it an even more minmalist cake.

For the base I blended 50 grams of walnuts, you could use nuts of your choice, I mixed the blended nuts together with the cacao (around 100 g, but a bit less will do as well) and in a separate bowl I mixed together the wet ingrediences, 40 grams of agave nectar with a large tablespoon of cocnut oil, once they had created a nice smooth mixture I mixed the dry and wet ingrediences together until it felt like a dough.

While I was pressing that into a 14 cm diameter cake tin, Kai was making the top part of the cake, she mixed together and melted cocnut oil (about a teaspoon), cacao powder (100 grams) and agave nectar (40 grams) together on low heat, while stirring it, so it wouldn't get too clumpy. Once it felt like a smearable consistency we put it on the bottom layer, which we had previously kept in the fridge for a little while and we also put some peanut butter inbetween the two layers, but that's optional.

Also optional, we used some chocolate flavoured cocnut flakes as decorations.

Once everything looked semi-decent, we left the cake in the fridge to stay overnight and turn into an edible cake. I think it turned out quite nice, it was very chocolatey, which I love and none of our friends said anything negative about it either, they may have just been polite, but I choose to believe that they loved it.

The recipe was very simple and we managed to do it in less than half an hour, so I would recommend it. 

That's all for today,

Kaiela :)