Vegan Chocolate Cake

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 268.6
  • Total Fat: 9.3 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 498.6 mg
  • Total Carbs: 44.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.9 g
  • Protein: 3.0 g

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Introduction

This a quick to mix cake that you can make when your cupboards and fridge are almost bare - it is a vegan recipe, so has no eggs or dairy. It's the reaction between the soda and vinegar that helps the cake rise, so don't leave either of them out! This a quick to mix cake that you can make when your cupboards and fridge are almost bare - it is a vegan recipe, so has no eggs or dairy. It's the reaction between the soda and vinegar that helps the cake rise, so don't leave either of them out!
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    1.5 cups plain white flour (approx. 200g)
    1 cup white sugar
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    3 tablespoons cocoa powder
    1 teaspoon salt
    5 tablespoons oil (I use canola)
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 teaspoon white vinegar (or malt vinegar)
    1 cup cold water

Directions

Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl, quickly, until smooth - a good beating with a wooden spoon if you're low tech, or use a hand held mixer.

Pour into a lined baking tin (I use a non-stick spring form pan that's 20cm in diameter), and bake in an oven preheated to 350 F or 180 C, until cooked (test with a skewer).

You can ice/frost if desired, but I enjoy it warm with a sprinkling of icing sugar.

The nutrition here is based on slicing the 20cm round tin into 8 portions, but you could quite easily get 12 or more portions with some creative cutting. I recently got 20 small square portions for a work pot-luck (with some leftover), that worked out at around 108 cal per serve.

Number of Servings: 8