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    HOME » Desserts » Vegan chocolate fudge cake with silky chocolate ganache

    Vegan chocolate fudge cake with silky chocolate ganache

    Dec 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment

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    Chocolate time! with this delicious vegan chocolate fudge cake. This recipe is really simple, and can't fail. The cake is beautiful moist and rich, and with the added ganache smooth and creamy. A real treat for you and your dinner guests.

    piece of chocolate fudge cake cut open

    Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

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    • 🍰 Main ingredients
    • 💭 Thoughts and ideas
    • 🍷 Wine pairing
    • 📋 Recipe
    • Vegan chocolate fudge cake

    🍰 Main ingredients

    • flaxseeds
    • medjool dates
    • dairy free milk
    • espresso coffee
    • bicarbonate soda
    • coconut oil
    • fine brown sugar, or coconut sugar
    • cocoa powder
    • vegan dark chocolate
    • vinegar or lemon juice
    • self raising flour
    • chocolate chips dark
    • silken tofu
    • vanilla extract
    • maple syrup or agave syrup

    💭 Thoughts and ideas

    You can make this dessert perfectly ahead of time. Make it in the morning, keep in the fridge, and enjoy it with dinner. Just make sure not to add the raspberry coulis until the end.

    As I don't have a sweet tooth myself, desserts are not my strongest skills in the kitchen. But this recipe is always a winner. It has never failed on me. If the outside of the cakes become to crunchy, you can just cut it off, and shape your little cakes in whichever way you like. Cover them in the beautiful rich, creamy ganache and nobody will notice 😉

    While doing this recipe for the website, I decided to make little cakes, like tartlet shapes. That way I could add some ganache in the middle, and built a little tower. But you can let your creativity completely on the loose with decorating this cake, as you can see on the pictures;

    • chocolate fudge cake on plate
    • creative decoration of chocolate fudge cake

    For a super quick, easy and simple chocolate dessert check out my silky vegan chocolate mousse.

    🍷 Wine pairing

    With chocolate I would always choose to have a nice full round sweet dessert wine. As you can read in my wine-pairing suggestions. Sweet, sweeter, sweetest! So choose a wine as sweet or sweeter than the dessert. Which brings you to a sweet old vintage port, or a sweet Banyuls wine from the South of France. If you like sherry, try a nice sweet sherry with this dessert, and be surprised.

    Get the chocoholics excited with this beautiful vegan chocolate fudge cake. Let me know what you think of the recipe, and how it turned out. Any creative pictures... please add @haricoco1 to your instagram post, I Love to see your special creations.

    📋 Recipe

    piece of chocolate fudge cake cut open

    Vegan chocolate fudge cake

    Delicious rich with Chocolate ganache
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    Prep Time: 20 minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes
    Total Time: 50 minutes
    Servings: 4
    Calories: 843.83kcal

    Ingredients

    • This recipe makes 2 x 10 cm cakes or 8 small 4-5 cm cakes tartlet size, which you can double up with some ganache in the middle, see picture.

    For the fudge cake

    • 1 Tablespoon flaxseeds ground
    • 3 Tablespoons water
    • 50 grams (⅕ cups) medjool dates pitted and cut in small pieces
    • 80 ml (⅓ cup) dairy free milk
    • 1 Tablespoon espresso coffee
    • 1 Tablespoon bicarbonate soda
    • 50 grams (¼ cup) coconut oil
    • 150 grams (¾ cups) fine brown sugar, or coconut sugar
    • 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
    • 50 grams (½ cup) dark vegan chocolate grated
    • ½ teaspoon vinegar or lemon juice
    • 80 grams (⅔ cup) ⅔ Cup self raising flour

    For the Ganache

    • 180 grams (1 cup) chocolate chips, dark vegan chocolate
    • 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
    • 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
    • 320 grams (1 package) silken tofu
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 4 Tablespoons maple syrup or agave syrup

    Instructions

    • for the cakes
    • Pre-heat the oven to 170C
    • Soak the ground flaxseeds in the water and leave to sit for minimum 5 minutes
    • Pour the soaked flax, pitted dates, dairy free milk, and espresso in a small pan and bring to the boil. Leave to cool, and blend well with a stick blender.
    • In a bowl mix the coconut oil with the sugar until you get a smooth paste, add the cocoa powder, the grated chocolate, vinegar and blend again.
    • Add the bicarbonate soda to the date and milk mixture and whisk, the mixture should start foaming up a bit.
    • Whisk in the chocolate mixture and than carefully fold in the self raising flour.
    • Put the mixture into your lined cake tins or into your silicon tartlet moulds.
    • Bake for 30 minutes on 170C, until risen and springing back to the touch.
    • For the ganache
    • Meld the dark vegan chocolate and the coconut oil in a bowl over a pan with hot water (au-bain-marie). Let cool down slightly.
    • Blend the silken tofu smooth in a food processor.
    • Add the chocolate mix, the cocoa powder, vanilla, and syrup, and blend again.
    • Taste, add more syrup if required.
    • Let the ganache cool down so it thinkens slightly. And use it to cover your cooled down cakes.
    • Add some raspberry coulis, for a bit of tang.

    Notes

    You can decorate this cake with fresh raspberries and the raspberry coulis, which gives a nice tang, and great for colour 😉
    In this case I have chosen to bake the cakes in little tartlet sizes, and put two little cakes on top of each other with ganache in the middle, and completely covered. Which makes a nice little chocolate tower.
    But any decoration is possible like you see in the post description, Enjoy and have FUN with it!
     

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1g | Calories: 843.83kcal | Carbohydrates: 118.63g | Protein: 13.61g | Fat: 42.45g | Saturated Fat: 28.62g | Cholesterol: 2.06mg | Sodium: 65.76mg | Fiber: 8.47g | Sugar: 90.12g | Vitamin A: 1.15IU | Vitamin C: 0.46mg | Calcium: 28.47mg | Iron: 26.6mg
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