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

Breakfast is known to be one of the most important meals of the day: it provides us with the right amount of energy, necessary to face all our various activities. And since eating breakfast is also a pleasure , before embarking on the usual daily rush between home, family, work and various commitments, make it special. And what better way than with a homemade dessert like this delicious vegan cocoa cake ? Soft, cinnamon-scented and very moist thanks to the orange juice among the ingredients, this vegan cocoa cake is truly the ideal dessert to start the day off right. And before baking, it's up to you to personalize it with dried fruit.

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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 , also an excellent idea for children's snacks 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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