Cocoa Cake: A Vegan Recipe with Orange Juice and Sunflower Seed Oil

Excellent for breakfast or as a dessert in the evening. Garnish with flaked almonds, raisins, pine nuts, and coconut flour. Bake at 180°C (350°F) for thirty minutes.

vegan cocoa cake recipe

VEGAN COCOA CAKE RECIPE

La Breakfast It is known that it is one of the most important meals of the day: it provides us with the right amount of energy, necessary to face all the different activities. And since having breakfast is also a pleasure, before embarking on the usual daily rush between home, family, work and various commitments, make it special. And as if not with a homemade dessert like this delicious one vegan cocoa cakeSoft, cinnamon-scented, and incredibly moist thanks to the orange juice among its ingredients, this vegan cocoa cake is truly the perfect dessert to start your day off right. And before baking, you can customize it with... nuts.

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SIMPLE VEGAN CAKE RECIPE

Let's see together, step by step, how to proceed with the preparation of this delicious vegan cocoa cake, a great idea for the snack of children at school:

Ingredients

  • 250 grams of flour
  • 130 g of raw sugar
  • 130 g of sunflower seed oil
  • 70 ml of water
  • 70 ml of orange juice
  • 3 ripe apples
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 70 grams of cocoa powder
  • 1 sachet of baking powder

Preparation

  • Wash and peel the apples, cut them into pieces and blend them for a long time together with the sugar using a food processor or a normal blender until you obtain a thick mixture.
  • Place everything in a large bowl, add the water, the Orange juice and the oil. Make sure the ingredients are well combined.
  • Preheat the oven in 180 °.
  • Combine the flour, cocoa and cinnamon powder Add the flour by the spoonful and mix thoroughly, little by little, to avoid lumps. Finally, add the yeast.
  • Line a cake pan Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and pour in the batter. Garnish with flaked almonds, coconut flour, raisins, and pine nuts, to taste.
  • Bake in the oven at 180° for about half an hour.
  • To see if the Dolce it's readyInsert a toothpick into several spots on the cake: if it comes out clean, the cake is ready. If not, continue baking.

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