Vegan Chocolate Cake

The cake ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sifted plain flour
• 1/3 cacao powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup coffee (1 cup warm water + 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder)
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1 teaspoon liquid vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 handful of crushed walnuts

The frosting ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon cacao powder
• 100 g icing sugar
• 2 tablespoon water or almond milk

To make the cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celsius.
2. Grease the cake pan with canola oil and dust with some flour. The cake pan I used is rectangular 9 inch.
3. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cacao powder, salt and sugar.
4. In a different bowl, mix the coffee, canola oil, vanilla and vinegar.
5. Pour the liquid ingredients mixture over the dry ingredients gradually while you are mixing.
6. When the batter is smooth, add the crush walnuts then pour it in the prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and let it cool for 10 minutes then turn the cake out of the pan and let it cool completely on a rack.

To make the frosting:

1. In a small bowl, whisk all the ingredients together using using a fork until the mixture is smooth.
2. Pour over the cooled cake.

Note: this recipe makes 12 cupcakes, if you wish to use this recipe to make cupcakes.