Forums: April 2011 Kickstart Forum: needing a treat?
Created on: 05/31/11 03:10 AM Views: 1185 Replies: 5
kiwi Joined: 01/03/11 Location: New Zealand Posts: 405	needing a treat? Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 3:10 AM Hi everyone, I haven't made this cake myself yet but I have tasted it when someone else made it and i begged for the recipe. It is devine. Not quite as rich and mosit as a brownie but in no way a dry chocolate cake either. You can swap the sugar to make it more 'vegan' friendly if you want. Its not low fat but sometimes you just have to indulge. Egg-free, Dairy-free, Chocolate Cake Ingredients: 1/2 cup vegetable or light olive oil 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla essence 2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 cup cocoa 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup water 2 cups grated zucchini a dash of white vinegar In a large bowl mix oil, sugar and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients into this and mix well. Fold in the water, vinegar and zucchini. Pour into a lined tin and bake at 180 degrees celcius for 30 minutes When cold ice with chocolate icing Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates.
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: needing a treat? Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM Does anyone know the conversion to use if you don't have self-rising flour? I know it needs baking powder and/or baking soda but not which or how much. We never have store bought flour in the house, but we do have baking powder, baking soda, etc. --Deb R
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kiwi Joined: 01/03/11 Location: New Zealand Posts: 405	RE: needing a treat? Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 5:37 PM The proportions vary a little depending on the source but generaly it is 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder for every cup of flour (some resources say 2 teaspoons of baking powder). Adding one teaspoon of cream of tartar and half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda to one cup of plain flour gives the same result. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates.
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cch22 Joined: 09/08/10 Location: New York State Posts: 999	RE: needing a treat? Posted Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 7:25 AM not in a million years would i put olive oil in a cake. just use canola and don't even think about the olive oil. in fact if olive oil is all you have don't bother; wait till you get some vegetable (canola). just my opinion.. i tried it before and it wasn't pretty, in fact it hit the circular bucket after less than one piece.
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Pammo Joined: 09/04/10 Posts: 10	RE: needing a treat? Posted Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 1:39 AM I would definitely try subbing 1/2 of the oil with 1/4 cup of applesauce. I've made regular zucchini/choc cake and it is delish! I'm assuming this recipe would be great!
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kiwi Joined: 01/03/11 Location: New Zealand Posts: 405	RE: needing a treat? Posted Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 2:14 AM Pammo wrote: I would definitely try subbing 1/2 of the oil with 1/4 cup of applesauce. I've made regular zucchini/choc cake and it is delish! I'm assuming this recipe would be great! I just made this today and substituted agave syrup for sugar, added 1/2 cup applesauce in place of the oil and used wholemeal flour and 2 tsp of baking powder in place of self raising flour. I added a little less water due to the applesauce and agave liquid and it came out great. I will keep this for those special occasions like birthdays when a chocolate cake is called for. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates.
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