Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

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This cake. It confounds me. It delights me. I never ever thought I would be in raptures about the joyfulness of a – yes – vegan chocolate cake.

Keywords

  • Egg Free
  • Vegan
  • Indulgent
  • Sociable
  • Sweet
  • Partytime
  • Birthdays
  • Summer
  • Dairy Free
  • Chocolate
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Ingredients

  • 225 grams plain flour
  • 1½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
  • ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1½ teaspoons instant espresso powder
  • 75 grams cocoa
  • 300 grams soft dark brown sugar
  • 90ml or 75 grams coconut oil or flavourless vegetable oil such as sunflower oil
  • 1½ teaspoons cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon edible rose petals
  • 1 tablespoon chopped pistachios
  • 75 grams coconut butter (this is not the same as oil)
  • 50 grams soft dark sugar
  • 1½ tablespoons cocoa
  • 150 grams dark chocolate (min. 70% cocoa solids, see Intro), finely chopped

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