Recipe: Vegan Chocolate and Avocado Cake

vegan chocolate avocado cake recipe healthy green

vegan chocolate avocado cake recipe healthy green

Vegan Chocolate and Avocado Cake

This brownie like cake will go well with coffee, hot chocolate and for school fairs etc.  It is converted from  a US recipe so amounts such as water needed to bond the mixture may need amending.

 

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate and Avocado Cake

Ingredients
  

  • 375 g flour
  • 6 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 60 ml vegetable oil I used coconut oil
  • 500 ml water
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/ 170 degrees C/gas mark 4.
  • Grease and flour two 8 or 9-inch rounds. Put aside.
  • Sift together all of the dry ingredients except the sugar. Set that aside too.
  • Mix all the wet ingredients together in a bowl, including the mashed avocado.
  • Add sugar into the wet mix and stir.
  • Mix the wet with the dry, and beat with a whisk until smooth.
  • Pour batter into a greased cake tins.
  • Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  • Let cakes cool.
  • Add icing when cool.

The icing is made as follows:-

2 small to medium, very ripe avocados

2 teaspoons lemon juice

450g icing sugar, sifted

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Peel and remove the avocado meat, ensuring no brown spots.

Place the avocado meat into the bowl of a stand mixer fit with the whisk attachment.

Add lemon juice and whisk the avocado on medium speed, until slightly lightened in color and smooth, about 2-3 minutes.

Add the icing sugar a little at a time and beat.

Add vanilla extract until combined.

This will store OK in the fridge, it won’t turn brown!

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I am Emma and with my husband Mark write Foodie Explorers, which is a food and travel website.

I am a member of the Guild of Food Writers and British Guild of Travel Writers.

We have a wide range of judging experience covering products, hotels and have judged, for example, for Great Taste Awards and Scottish Baker of the Year.

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