Ultimate dairy-free chocolate cake « angels & urchins blog

Ultimate dairy-free chocolate cake
Thursday, August 5th, 2010

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It was recently the youngest’s birthday, and the little guy has a dairy intolerance. He also has a massive love of cake and chocolate. So I made him my mother’s oil- rather than butter-based sponge failsafe. It’s a great recipe, easy to whip together, and quantities can be doubled/tripled/whatevered, depending on how many you’ve got to cater for. Because the recipe contains beaten egg white the cake’s consistency is lovely and fluffy – sandwich it with raspberries and a rich ganache, and it’s perfect for a dinner party. But older sons had requested a pirate ship design, so that’s what doting mummy made (I know it looks a bit like a sledge…).

Here’s the recipe (sorry it’s all in cup form, but that’s how it was handed on to me). I’m afraid I smothered the cake in butter icing, but I also made a cocoa, icing sugar and water version for the birthday boy. He ate about three helpings, and was still singing merrily in his cot gone 9pm.

Dairy-Free Chocolate Sponge Cake

1 cup plain flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3tsp baking powder
3tblsp cocoa
1/3 cup oil (anything that isn’t too strong tasting, sunflower is fine)
1/2 cup hot, not boiling, water
3 eggs, SEPARATED

METHOD
Mix together all ingredients EXCEPT egg whites
Beat egg whites until stiff, then fold into the mixture
Put mixture in two Victoria sponge tins, or an rectangular baking tin, and bake for 20 minutes at 200C

Also makes cupcakes, but reduce baking time by around five minutes.

Tags: Food for thought, Practical but fabulous, Treats for mum, Treats for teenies

10 Responses to “Ultimate dairy-free chocolate cake”

veryanniemary says:

August 6, 2010 at 23:38

Wow that looks easy! I obviously have no problem with cups where I’m from! This looks like a project for me and a passing child this summer…in fact Imogen my resident chocoholic.
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angels & urchins blog says:

August 12, 2010 at 20:59

Get Imogen on the case! It’s almost a health food, after all…
Faith the Cooking Healthy Girl says:

September 22, 2010 at 20:16

Terrific, that’s definitely what I was shooting for!
Rico says:

September 23, 2010 at 22:57

for those lactose intolerant ones here is a beauty that will endlessly call your name and say ….eat me …eat me..thx 4 sharing

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Vania Colburn says:

October 9, 2010 at 21:04

I tried your cake recipe some days ago but somehow couldn’t get the same result as you, my cake really wasn’t looking that good (but tasted fine). What kind of chocolate are you using? Maybe it’s because of the flour I used, so I used amaranth flour instead of normal wheat flour.
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