VEGAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:

2 tablespoons flax seeds

6 tablespoons water

10 tablespoons coconut oil

1/2 cups natural sugar

1 tablespoon honey

200 g white flour

1/2 tablespoon cocoa

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons cinnamon

finely grated zest of 1 orange

1/2 teaspoon salt

INGREDIENTS CREAM:

300 g berries, fresh or frozen

200 ml vegetable cream

3 tablespoons natural sugar

INGREDIENTS COATING:

200 g of chocolate, 60% cocoa

Preparation

Vegan Chocolate Cake

Preheat the oven to 160 C and prepare a pan of 18-20 cm, slightly smaller than the classic ring.

In a small bowl, mix the flax seeds with water and set aside.

In a pot heat the coconut oil, natural sugar and honey. Stir occasionally, until melted and set aside to cool.

When it`s cool, put the flax seeds in the composition above.

Separately mix flour with baking powder, cinnamon, cocoa, salt and orange zest.

Put together the two compositions, the flour mixture with the liquid and mix them using a spoon. Do not mix too much, just until all the flour is absorbed. Then pour it in the cake pan with parchment paper.

Bake for 30 minutes, do not over cook it, even if you think that it is not ripe enough. It is ready if the middle is put together, check with a toothpick.

Allow it to cool on a rack. Then cut the cake into 3 equal parts,

For the filling: Place in a blender 100 g berries, mix until it is creamy. Then beat the cream until it is thick, mix with the fruit paste and add the other 200 g whole berries. Put natural sugar to taste, about 3 tablespoons, depending on how sour the fruits are.

Melt the chocolate on a steam bath. Once melted, take one tablespoon of chocolate and make chocolate lines using a parchment paper, to use them to garnish.

To assemble the cake, put on a plate the first layer of cake then spread cream, repeat the process until you have filled the 3 layers.

Pour chocolate over the last layer. Allow to harden then make the cake decorating. Until now the melted chocolate has changed consistency, being thicker, exactly what we need. Brush with chocolate all around the upper side of last layer, and then pin on the sides the lines of chocolate, pressing them lightly with your fingers.

Before you serve the Vegan Chocolate Cake, leave it at least 30 minutes at room temperature and to cut it use a knife heated in hot water, so it will easily penetrate through the layer of chocolate.