Vegan Chocolate Fruit Cake

You can see that my blog does not evidently have Vegan written over it. I am a person who loves her ghee, butter, eggs and milk. Now vegans. No offence. But when its winter, you want to bake. You go shopping and forget butter and eggs. That s when vegan comes into play. That s typically what happened to me some days back. I baked this way before christmas on one of those days when i really desperately needed to shove a huge chunk of chocolate cake into my mouth. That craving is evil. I opened the fridge only to find that my egg tray was long overdue to be refilled and my stock of butter, the unsalted one of course had depleted over the past weeks due to my wicked indulgences. I scoured the internet for vegan recipes. No i searched for cake recipes without eggs and butter. I came across this one and instantly struck a chord with it. This is originally a cupcake recipe but because the lazy bug bit me, i dint want to go to the trouble of finding that muffin pan in the kitchen, i just baked in an oval mould. Who cares?? As long as you can randomly cut a chunk and pop it into your mouth.

Prep Time: Under 20 mins
Cook Time: 60 mins
Source: Adapted from Allrecipes.com
Serves- No dont ask me that question. Because i served my own self with half the cake.


What you need?

Flour 2 cups
Sugar white or brown 1 cup powdered ( i used brown. I just like using brown cos it has a nice exotic ring to it)
Cocoa powder 1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp

Vegetable oil or canola oil 1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp
Water 1 cup
Soy milk at room temperature 1/2 cup( psst… i used normal cow s milk high fat. I dont care. I told you before.)
Baking powder 1 tbsp ( yes.. that much because no eggs and no butter either. Baking is a science. You have to understand that baking powder makes the cake spongy and soft)
Vanilla custard powder 1 tsp ( optional) I just dont happen to like vanilla extract. Feel free to use the extract if you want to
Salt a pinch

For the toppings:

Chocolate chips any variety ( Toss in whichever you like. I like white chocolate buttons!!) 1/4 cup
Dried Cranberries and raisins dusted with flour 1/2 cup
Orange zest grated 1 tsp( optional)

How to make it?

Place all the dry ingredients except the sugar in a large mixing bowl.

Now, combine well.

Preheat the oven at 175 C.Now, add the wet ingredients one by one starting with the oil. I added the custard powder at this stage. I forgot to do it before. But if you are going to use the custard, then add it when you are combining the sugar.

Sending this to Sravs Event CC- Chocolate