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Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake | Recipe | Vegan chocolate cake, Simply nigella, Vegan chocolate
a chocolate cake with sprinkles on a white plate sitting on a wooden table
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Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake

This cake. It confounds me. It delights me. I never ever thought I would be in raptures about the joyfulness of a — yes — vegan chocolate cake. I now make this as my chocolate cake of choice for people where dietary restrictions are not an issue, and I don’t even need to explain it’s vegan. No need to offer explanations: you just need to offer the cake. On top of everything else, it’s incredibly simple to make. My version has coconut oil in the cake, and coconut butter in the icing, but of…
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Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

Condiments
• 75 g Coconut butter
Baking & Spices
• 1 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• 300 g Brown sugar, soft dark
• 75 g Cocoa
• 1 1/2 tbsp Cocoa
• 150 g Dark chocolate
• 225 g Plain flour
• 1/2 tsp Sea salt, fine
• 50 g Sugar, soft dark
Oils & Vinegars
• 1 1/2 tsp Cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
• 90 ml Coconut oil or flavourless vegetable oil such as sunflower oil
Nuts & Seeds
• 1 tbsp Pistachios
Drinks
• 3 tsp Espresso, instant powder
Beer, Wine & Liquor
• 1 tbsp Edible rose petals

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