{"id":431,"date":"2015-03-20T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-03-20T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:35:36","slug":"chocolate-mousse-cake-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/2015\/03\/20\/chocolate-mousse-cake-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Mousse Cake – vegan"},"content":{"rendered":"

So good! Don’t tell your guests that it’s vegan, and they’ll never guess…<\/p>\n

Vegan Chocolate Mousse Cake<\/h1>\n

Makes a 20cm dia cake – Serves 8<\/em><\/p>\n


\n\"Vegan
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Cake<\/h2>\n
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  1. 11<\/sup>\/2<\/sub> cups plain flour<\/li>\n
  2. 1 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n
  3. 1<\/sup>\/4<\/sub> cup cocoa<\/li>\n
  4. 1 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n
  5. 1<\/sup>\/2<\/sub> teaspoon salt<\/li>\n
  6. 1<\/sup>\/3<\/sub> cup vegetable oil<\/li>\n
  7. 1 teaspoon vanilla essence<\/li>\n
  8. 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar<\/li>\n
  9. 1 cup water<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C, and line with paper or grease a 20cm round cake tin.<\/li>\n
    2. Sift A-E together into a bowl.<\/li>\n
    3. Add the remaining ingredients, mix with a blender until smooth.<\/li>\n
    4. Pour into cake tin, bake for 45 minutes, or until cake skewer comes out clean.<\/li>\n
    5. Remove from oven, allow to cool, remove carefully from the pan for further cooling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Mousse<\/h2>\n
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      1. 1 block (200-250g) dairy-free dark chocolate, melted.
        \n(Many dark chocolate brands use milk solids, check the ingredients)<\/em>
        \n(An easy method to melt chocolate; break it into squares and microwave for 20 seconds at a time, stirring well each time, until all melted)<\/em><\/li>\n
      2. 1 packet (250-350g) of silken tofu<\/li>\n
      3. 2 tbsp milk (coconut, almond, rice etc)<\/li>\n
      4. 3 tbsp icing sugar<\/li>\n
      5. 1 tsp vanilla essence<\/li>\n
      6. Generous pinch of salt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Put all ingredients together in a bowl.<\/li>\n
        2. Blend at high speed for several minutes. The mousse should be completely smooth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Assembly<\/h2>\n
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          1. Half a jar of strawberry jam<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            1. Turn the cake out of the pan.<\/li>\n
            2. Using a long bread knife, cut the cake in half horizontally. Put the lower half on a plate, and the upper half aside.
              \n(The cake will be fragile, so take care to prevent it from cracking)<\/em><\/li>\n
            3. If your cake tin is the spring-form kind, place the ring over the cake.<\/em><\/li>\n
            4. With a spatula, spread the mousse over the lower half of the cake.<\/li>\n
            5. Place the upper half of the cake over the top.<\/li>\n
            6. Melt the jam in the microwave (about a minutes) until molten.
              \n(Warning: Hot jam is hot.)<\/em><\/li>\n
            7. Spread\/pour the jam over the top of the cake.<\/li>\n
            8. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Serve on its own or with ice cream\/sorbet.
              \nIf vegan: Do your best to keep everyone else away from your precious cake. Precious…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              So good! Don’t tell your guests that it’s vegan, and they’ll never guess… Vegan Chocolate Mousse Cake Makes a 20cm dia cake – Serves 8 Cake 11\/2 cups plain flour 1 cup brown sugar 1\/4 cup cocoa 1 teaspoon baking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[39,72,71,70],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-chocolate","tag-chocolate-mousse","tag-mousse","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}