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I have been seduced yet again with this heavenly suggestion! This has got to be the most delicious, 'healthiest', real tasting, rich chocolate cake out there. Dairy free, egg free, using spelt flour and only using maple syrup or rapadura sugar... It caused much delight here yesterday.
INGREDIENTS:
Dry ingredients:
Two and a half cups of Spelt Flour
Two cups Rapadura (sucanat) Sugar
Three quaters of a cup of Cocoa Powder
One and a half tsp Baking Soda
Half a tsp Sea Salt
Half a tsp Cinnamon Powder
Wet ingredients:
Six Tbl Safflower/sunflower oil
Two and a quarter cups Filtered or spring water
Two Tbl Apple cider vinegar
One tsp vanilla extract
Frosting:
2 Cups Vegan chocolate chips (or chocolate)
12.3 oz Silken firm tofu or ripe avocado
2 Tbl Maple syrup
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation:
1. CAKE... Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit. Place dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well. Combine wet ingredients in a small bowl. Add wet to dry and mix well. Pour into parchment paper lined 9" x 13" baking pan and bake until a toothpick comes out clean, approximately 35-40 minutes.
2. FROSTING... Place chocolate chips in an open heat prood dish in an open saucepan (the saucepan needs about an inch of boiling water in it) to melt the choc. Stir frequently. Combine with remaining ingredients and blend until smoothe and creamy. Refrigerate until it thickens.
3. Cool cake before frosting. Garnish with dessicated coconut, toasted coconut flakes, strawberries, pecans, chocolate chips etc.
Variations. Try replacing cocoa/chocolate ingredients for carob
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
YUMMMMMYYYYY!!!!!
That really looks delicious but I have a couple of questions please.
Are the cups UK or American cup measures (I've learned the hard way these are two different volumes [&:])? And in the recipe is baking soda, is that baking powder or bicarbonate of soda?
Thank you so much, this looks fabulous and I would love to bake it but would also like very much for it to come out correctly 😀
Love and angel kisses
Angelique
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Hi A 🙂
The cups are indeed American cups, but to be honest, I don't have one of those, so I used a tea cup instead, which worked perfectly. I figured that if I used the same cup size for all the main ingredients, then it would pretty much be proportionally acurate (I do also notice that vegan recipes are more 'forgiving' if we deviate slightly from the suggested ingredients).
I used bicarbonate of soda (after asking myself the same question).
The other thing was, that I didn't have the suggested sized cake tin, so I put it in a round tin instead. I think it meant I needed to cook it a little longer.
Do let me know how it goes. You are in for a real treat.
With Love
Trin
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Looks absolutely yummy.....will have to try!
Thanks
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Hi Summerday 🙂 What a bright and cheerful name!
It tastes even better than it looks too.
Let us know how you get on if you try it.
Love
Trin
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Hello all~
A cup measure in the US is 8 ounces
Baking soda is bicarbonate of soda
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
thanks trin. i'm very grateful for this ahhh, delicous looking treat. my daughters birthday party is coming up and i was looking desperately for something vegan which does not look too healthy
.I'm gonna make a few them for sure.
x
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
yummmyyyy...
thanks Trin, now I am also gunna give it a bash.. but sshhh .. .I don't bake all that well.
So this will be done in secert, and only if it looks slightly like the pic, well...
hugs
shaz
xxxx
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Ahhh yes HappyC, this one is ideal for a birthday treat! Infact, this is the one I made for my husbands birthday last year 🙂
Shaz... beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am sure it will be delicious 😉
Love
Trin
RE: Freedom Chocolate Cake!!! (vegan, spelt, maple syrup!!! Delicious!)
Wow. I'm in work and its about 2350 on Sunday night and that cake has made me feel starving. I'm bored and keep thinking of it.
Hell off to the chip shop for me !!
Luv Windy xx