Recipe for Vegan Chocolate Cake

This recipe which I have used on several occasions comes from Pure Dairy Free Spread website but it no longer exists in this format on their site.

Servings - 8

Cooking time - 45 minutes

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake

150g melted dairy free Pure Spread (other vegan margarines are available)

275g self raising flour

50g cocoa powder

1 tbsp baking powder

250g caster sugar

a few drops of vanilla essence

350ml water

Chocolate Fudge

50g Pure spread

3 tbsp water

250g icing sugar

3 tbsp cocoa powder

Method

• Preheat oven to 160c
• Grease the based of your 20cm loose based cake tin and line with baking parchment
• For the cake - place ingredients into a bowl and whisk to make a smooth batter, pour the mixture into the cake tin, smooth the surface, bake for 45 mins or until a knife inserted into cake comes out clean
• Leave in tin to cool and turn out onto wire rack, leave to go cold and cut the cake in half.
• Chocolate fudge - gently melt the margarine (Pure Spread) with water in a pan, remove from heat then add cocoa powder and icing sugar and beat until smooth. Allow to cool until firm enough to spread on to the cake
• Use two thirds of chocolate fudge to fill centre and remaining third for the topping (in my photo I didn't place any in middle and simply coated the outside instead)