chocolate (53)

Monday the 5th of September at 10:31pm (-04:00)

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Coconut pecan ice cream, banana, blueberries, dark chocolate

🏷 fruit chocolate ice cream

Saturday the 21st of May at 7:30pm (-07:00)

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Lentil and black bean chili, rice, spinach mash, cilantro and almond pesto, broccoli, salad, homemade chocolate

🏷 vegetables chocolate rice chili

Monday the 4th of January at 6:41pm (-05:00)

Slippers, colouring books, crayons, chocolate (thanks mum!)

🏷 chocolate gift

Vegan chocolate fudge pie

I adapted Chocolate Covered Katie's chocolate fudge pie recipe - not much, and only in the sense that I couldn't measure everything properly and she leaves several ingredients to the baker's discretion.

Chocolate pie top

Crust: whole wheat flour, coconut sugar, vegetable oil.

Filling: tofu (less than the recipe), melted coconut oil + cocoa (melted chocolate substitute), more cocoa, coconut sugar, coconut milk, drizzle of maple syrup. (Omitted salt and vanilla).

Chocolate pie with tea

As promised on Katie's blog... really good. It set perfectly after about half an hour in the fridge. And before it set, it worked great as mousse.

Chocolate pie

Thanks to Liz for the decorative sprinkling of coconut creamer.

🏷 vegan chocolate tofu mbaking recipe pie baking chocolatecoveredkatie

29 Nov 2015, 21:57 (+00:00)

Coconut chocolate cake

I think CHI submission reviews coming in tipped me over the TODOs edge, I developed a powerful cake craving, but didn't want to leave my apartment/pyjamas so the natural outcome is... procrastabaking!

This was improvised, and I don't normally have much success with full-size cakes, but lack of other baking dishes left me with little choice. It turned out great! Maybe using US units of measurements is the secret after all.

cake

All measurements approximate:

1 1/4 cups wholewheat flour
handful of cocoa powder
handful of coconut sugar (I have small hands and not a sweet tooth, you might want more)
handful of coconut flakes
teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup vegetable oil (I would have used melted coconut oil but I didn't have enough)
juice of one small lime
enough warm water to bring to cake consistency, about 1/2 cup I guess

Combined dry and wet ingredients separately, then mixed together. Baked for 40 minutes (with poking breaks at 20 and 30) at 350F.

For the chocolate coating:

1/2 cup melted coconut oil
whatever drizzle of soy milk I had left.. uh 1/4 cup?
half a handful of cocoa powder
half a handful of coconut sugar

Stir vigorously over a very low heat to make it foamy and wonderful. When it cools it separates, so as soon as the cake is cooled, pour it over and immediately refrigerate. Still separated a bit, but tastes great.

cake