Chocolate Cake to Live For

Ingredients

• 1 cup organic whole-wheat pastry flour
• 1 cup organic unbleached white flour
• ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa powder
• ½ cup granulated whole cane sugar such as Sucanat or Rapadura, ground fine in a blender
• 2 tsp. aluminum-free baking powder
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. fine sea salt
• ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
• ½ cup California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oil, preferably Arbequina
• 1 cup pure maple syrup, dark amber or Grade B
• 2 cups chocolate or vanilla soymilk, almond milk, rice milk
• 1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract (optional)
• 1 tsp. chocolate extract
• 2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
• 1 pound nondairy bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped, at least 65%
• 1 1/2 cup soy creamer or soymilk
• 2 Tbsp. California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 tsp of crushed fleur de sel