{"id":1031,"date":"2019-09-01T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2020-04-26T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T02:56:47","slug":"best-chocolate-cake-ever-dairy-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Best Chocolate Cake Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best Chocolate Cake Ever<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>2 cups flour<br \/>\n2 cups sugar<br \/>\n3\/4 cup  cocoa powder<br \/>\n2 teaspoons baking powder<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoons baking soda<br \/>\n1 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1 teaspoon Coffee Granules, dissolved in 2 teaspoon Boiling water<br \/>\n1 cup coconut milk<br \/>\n1\/2 cup vegetable canola oil<br \/>\n2 large eggs<br \/>\n2 teaspoons vanilla essence<br \/>\n1 cup boiling water<\/p>\n<p>1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Prepare two 9-inch cake tins by lining with baking paper around sides and bottom.<\/p>\n<p>2. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and coffee to a large bowl. Whisk through to combine or stir through flour mixture until combined well.<\/p>\n<p>3. Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until<br \/>\nwell combined. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake mix until well combined.<\/p>\n<p>4. Distribute cake mix evenly between the two cake tins. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a<br \/>\ntoothpick inserted in the center of the chocolate cake comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the tin and cool<br \/>\ncompletely.  Remove paper, cool and ice if you wish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>The cake batter will be very thin after adding the boiling water. This is to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>I cut mine into 4 layers, and used raspberry jam between layers.<\/p>\n<p>On top, and around sides I have used the below icing.  It is quite sweet though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolate Frosting<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>  NOTE:  The steps of the frosting are important, as otherwise it splits<\/p>\n<p>1\u00bd cups butter, softened<br \/>\n1 cup cocoa powder<br \/>\n5 cups Icing sugar<br \/>\n\u00bd cup coconut milk<br \/>\n2 teaspoons vanilla extract<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon espresso powder &#8211; I Dissolved instant coffee in boiling water<\/p>\n<p>1. Add cocoa to a large bowl. Whisk through to remove any lumps.<\/p>\n<p>2. Cream together butter and cocoa powder until well-combined.<\/p>\n<p>3. Add sugar and milk to cocoa mixture by adding 1 cup of sugar followed by about a tablespoon of<br \/>\ncoconut milk. After each addition has been combined, turn mixer onto a high speed for about a minute.<br \/>\nRepeat until all sugar and coconut milk have been added.<\/p>\n<p>4. Add vanilla extract and espresso liquid<\/p>\n<p>5. If frosting appears too dry, add more coconut milk, a tablespoon at a time until it reaches the right<br \/>\nconsistency. If it appears to wet and does not hold its form, add more icing sugar, a<br \/>\ntablespoon at a time until it reaches the right consistency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190824_170124.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190824_170124-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20190824_170124\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190824_170124-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190824_170124-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190831_155814.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190831_155814-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20190831_155814\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190831_155814-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190831_155814-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Chocolate Cake Ever Ingredients 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 3\/4 cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1\/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Coffee Granules, dissolved in 2 teaspoon Boiling water 1 cup coconut milk 1\/2 cup vegetable canola oil 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla essence 1 cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cakes_slices","wpcat-13-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}