Month: February 2015

Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Chunk Oat Bars

Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Chunk Oat Bars

These quick and easy vegan Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Chunk Oat Bars are fudgy, satisfying and packed full of energy. When I left the hospital with my tiny two day old baby, my sweet friend Tanya sent me home with a tin of homemade 

Butternut Squash Goat Cheese Lasagne

Butternut Squash Goat Cheese Lasagne

This vegetarian butternut squash goat cheese lasagne makes for perfect winter comfort food. Well its been a week of ups and downs returning to work. On the one hand I love being back at the office, on the other I miss James terribly. Fortunately I 

Chocolate & Red Wine Cake

Chocolate & Red Wine Cake

Chocolate and red wine come together to make magic in this vegan, whole wheat chocolate red wine cake. Perfect for your vegan valentine!

Whole Wheat Vegan Chocolate Red Wine Cake

Only a serious loser would bake her own birthday cake, right? Right. So I will just gloss over the fact that my hubby and I ate this Chocolate Red Wine cake for my Birthday dessert last month, and focus on its suitability as a vegan valentines day dessert instead.

Vegan Chocolate Red Wine Cake

Chocolate and red wine contained within one bite? That is my idea of a good time. This is such a lovely variation on the traditional chocolate cake. I was first inspired by this recipe from the Smitten Kitchen, but used this recipe from Moosewood to make it vegan, and a little tweaking of my own to make it whole grain.

Vegan Chocolate Red Wine Cake- Emma's Little Kitchen Vegan Chocolate Red Wine Cake- Emma's Little Kitchen

I definitely fall into the Valentines Day non-enthusiastic camp, but I will take it as an excuse to make this chocolate cake again. I mean, by birthday isn’t for another 11 months…
Vegan Chocolate Red Wine Cake- Emma's Little Kitchen

Enjoy!

Chocolate & Red Wine Cake
 
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Chocolate and red wine come together to make magic in this vegan, whole wheat chocolate red wine cake. Perfect for your vegan valentine!
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Cuisine: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • For cake:
  • 1½ cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup brown sugar*
  • ½ cup safflower oil ( or other neutral vegetable oil)
  • ¾ cup red wine
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp cider vinegar
  • For Icing:
  • ¾ cup dark chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp red wine
  • water or almond milk to create desired consistency
Method
  1. Preheat oven to 375F/190C
  2. Line a 9 inch cake pan or grease liberally
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt and sugar, set aside
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together oil, wine, water and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the try, and mix until just combined. Quickly transfer to the cake pan
  5. Add the vinegar to the mixture, and quickly stir until its evenly distributed throughout the cake batter
  6. Bake for 35 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean, allow to cool for a few minutes in the palm before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely
  7. Make the icing: place chocolate chips, vanilla and wine in a small microwavable bowl, microwave at 20 second increments, stirring between each blast. When the ingredients have completely melted together, you can stir water or almond milk to reach desired consistency
  8. When the cake is completely cooled, smooth the icing over the cake

Notes

Adapted from this recipe, and inspired by this one.

If you don’t have a microwave you can prepare the icing with a double broiler instead.

Sweet Potato Pineapple Curry

Sweet Potato Pineapple Curry

This spicy-sweet sweet potato and pineapple curry is vegan, simple to make and will warm you from the inside out. You guuuyyyysss! In just a couple of short weeks I will be flying across the atlantic to spend a little time at home with my