Friday 8 April 2011

The. Ultimate. Chocolate. Cake.

Long time no blog...I have got a few recipes in the pipeline which I will post in due course.

First of all let me give credit to Isa Chandra Moskowitz and her legendary "Vegan With A Vengeance" which in our house is dog eared and smeared with chocolate and various other foodstuffs - sign of a good cookbook (or messy cook?)!!! This recipe is adapted from her super amazing Banana Split Pudding Brownie recipe in the above book.


Super Chocolately Cake


115g plain chocolate (I generally use 100g with good results as this is the weight of a standard chocolate bar)
2 medium sized bananas
5 tablespoons rapeseed oil
250ml sugar  (yes, ML)
1/3 cup soy milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
180g flour
25g cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt

Pre-heat oven to 180C.

Melt the chocolate by placing it in a bowl over simmering water. Stir until melted and take off the heat.

Combine bananas, oil, sugar and soy milk - I like to do this in a blender to get bananas really smooth, but if you want to do it in a large mixing bowl do pre mash the bananas. Blend/Stir in the melted chocolate and vanilla until everything is combined.

Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the banana mixture in batches, mixing as you go.

The mixture should not be too firm, but also not too runny, maybe a thick yoghurt consistency. Add more soy milk if mixture seems a bit stiff, although it will still taste amazing once baked if mixture is stiff, just a lot denser.

Pour into a greased and lined spring form baking tin. Bake for approximately 40minutes, but I would check on it at the 30 minute stage and insert a knife into the centre - if the knife comes out clean with no wet batter on in, then the cake is done.
Frost with chocolate ganache/buttercream icing.

Chilli option:  I have made this cake with 1 tsp of chilli powder and 1/2 tsp cinammon sifted with the dry ingredients. It is not spicy, it just lends a really nice warmth to the cake, almost making it seem more chocolatey.

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