Bad Texture, Good Taste: Vegan Baked Chocolate Cakes

The process of making cakes is more difficult than cooking daily foods such as side dishes or snacks. In cakes, a lot of things related to techniques or quantities of food ingredients that will cause a failure in the results of the cake.

The most common thing is the failure to produce a good texture on the cake. Just like what I experienced this time. My cake has a bad texture. My chocolate cake is thick and not sweet enough.

From the start, I realized that this would fail

I did an eggless cake experiment. The crazy thing again, I'm running out of ingredients that quite affect the taste and texture of the cake. But I am determined to try to make a chocolate cake.

I ran out of sugar and finally replaced it with brown sugar that was makeshift. And when the cake was in the process of baking, I realized that if the solid brown sugar I mixed it with liquid ingredients.

Lesson Learn

In making cakes, separate wet and dry food ingredients. It will anticipate the texture of your cake to be bad.

Because this time I mixed my brown sugar into the wet ingredients in margarine and coconut milk, so the texture of my cake became bad. This was because at first, I thought that brown sugar would be difficult to mix evenly with flour and other powder ingredients. But in fact, by mixing brown sugar in a bowl of wet ingredients, it was a mistake.

Here are the ingredients I use with the minimum I have:

Ingredients

150 grams of all-purpose flour
50 grams of cocoa powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
230 ml of coconut milk
60 ml of vegan butter/margarine
150 ml of brown sugar

How To Make

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius while making the dough. Combine flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda in a bowl, stir well. Set aside.

Step 2

I mix chopped brown sugar, coconut milk, and margarine. Mix well.

Step 3

Then mix the flour mixture and the liquid mixture.

Step 4
Brush the baking pan with vegetable oil or use baking paper.

Then add the mixture slowly. Then add roasted nuts like almond or peanut on the top.

Step 5

Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes.

Step 6
Let until cool about 20 minutes then remove from the pan.

Step 7
Serve. Can be added filling or topping according to your taste.

About taste

It's not too sweet because in this recipe I use brown sugar. But for those who don't like the taste too sweet, this cake can be accepted by their tongue.

This cake is suitable served as a friend to drink tea or coffee. But because of the bad texture, this cake is not worth serving as a dessert because it is less sweet and not soft.

Fortunately, the appearance of this cake is a quite helpful and quite comforting failure on the texture of this cake.

What do you think of my recipe this time? Give your opinion in the comments column.