Tea Cakes: vegan friendly cake; for Jonas

A few weeks ago we were staying at our parents, to do laudry, and because there was shindig there.

My parents were in California, so Marianne and I had the delicious assignment of procuring a dessert.

With our nephews tender tummy in we set out to make the best chocolate cake we could for him.

oven: 375 degrees

pans: two 8-9 inch pans

Original Mandy's Chocolate Cake recipe found here

ingredients:

{cake}

3 cups flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar

1 cup oil

4 teaspoons vanilla

4 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar

{icing}

2 ounces of semisweet chocolate

1/2 cup vegan butter/margarine/whatever you use

3 cups powdered sugar

2 Tablespoons soy milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

{Ganache}

5 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped; roughly

1 Tablespoon golden syrup, brown-rice syrup, or I used maple syrup

1/3 cup soy milk

{I also added about 2 cups of sugar, because I wanted my ganache to be sweet, not semisweet}

To make

{Cake}

Sift together your dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt and sugar.

In a separate bowl mix your wets: oil and vanilla

Add your two mixtures together, and whisk your little heart away, or until they are well incorporated, which ever comes first.

Add vinegar and stir quickly. The vinegar may or may not form pale swirls in the mixture. Refer back to your 3rd grade science fair to see why this happens.

hint: vinegar + baking soda = volcanic eruptions

Tip:

there isn't egg to keep this thing from crumbling out of the cake pan, pans, or cup cake tins.

i would recommend greasing, flouring, and parchmenting every inch of your pan.

{Icing}

Melt chocolate and let cool

tip:

Melting chocolate can be trickier than one may initially think.

In order to not burn it, heat the chocolate until a few pieces start to melt.

One this happen, immediately remove from heat source, and stir until all chocolate pieces are melted.

mix room temperature chocolate with margarine, until fluffy.

in a sparate bowl: add sugar, soy milk, and vanilla; beating until silky smooth.

add the two together.

{Ganche}
Chop chocolate in a food processor.
Heat syrup and milk together, and bring to a boil.
Hint:
If you dip your measuring spoon in boiling water, before you put the syrup in it, the syrup will just slide right out of the spoon. Eliminate mess and headache.
Drizzle syrup mixture into the running-chopping food processor, until smooth.
let cool.