• Vegan chocolate cake

    Serves: 8
    Cooking Time: 45 minutes

    Ingredients

    • 420g (3 cups) self-raising flour
    • 400g (2 cups) sugar
    • 30g cocoa
    • 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder
    • 5ml (1 tsp) salt
    • 180ml (¾ cup) vegetable oil
    • 30ml (2 tbsp) vinegar
    • 10ml (2 tsp) vanilla essence
    • 500ml (2 cups) cold water
    • icing sugar, to dust

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C.

    2

    Mix the dry ingredients together. Add the wet ingredients and stir until smooth.

    3

    Pour into 2 greased 23cm cake tins and bake in the preheated oven, 30 minutes. Allow to cool in the oven.

    4

    Dust with icing sugar or ice with an icing made by mixing 50g (½ cup) cocoa, 125ml (½ cup) agave or honey and 60ml (¼ cup) coconut oil.