I've been wanting one of these bad boys for a while now. I kept talking myself out of it, though. I'm one of those people who's really good at not buying stuff they really want.
Needless to say I had to celebrate receiving this gift by putting a cake in it.
My family and I put on a rather large shindig for my graduation so I have tons of left overs now. I thought that among this excess of food I would find some eggs for my cake. Incorrect. No eggs were left. I didn't want to go out and buy them, I'm moving out in a couple of days and there is so much food that needs to be eaten before then!
The search for a vegan cake recipe began.
I found the PERFECT one! It's so rich, dense, and moist. It's not too sweet nor does it taste funky. The frosting I chose is too weak, I think, for this cake. It needed something richer. Perhaps a buttercream...
Vegan Chocolate Banana Cake:
2 cups unbleached organic all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cup of raw organic sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup olive oil
1 1/2 cups hot water
1 tsp organic vanilla extract (I try to avoid corn syrupy imitation stuff as much as possible, but sometimes you got to do what you got to do...)
1 cup mashed bananas - I modified here. I only had one banana which resulted in a half a cup of banana gunk. There's tons of left over white rice in my fridge so I pureed that up and used it to make up the other half cup. It worked out really well.
directions on baking it can be found here where I jacked the recipe from.
Frosting:
5 1/2 tbsp of softened butter (unsalted)
1 1/2 cups of powdered/confectioners sugar
3 tbsp organic vanilla soy milk - organic soy is safer
2 glops of molasses
Start with the sugar and the butter. Whip that up (I used an electric mixer) until it's blended and fluffy looking. Add the milk and molasses and whip some more. Done! Lather that cake up.
I baked the cake in a pretty little bunt pan and put the icing on thick at the top so it would drip down the crevices. It looks really nice :)
Modify this recipe to your liking if you want to use it. I'm all about experimenting with foods. I never do it if I'm going to a party or anything, I usually stick to a recipe or if I know something works and am comfortable with it. Because I was baking this cake mostly for myself I had some fun with modifications. Happy baking...
