Vegan Chocolate Cake (no flour required!)

This homemade chocolate cake (Rainbow Nourishments) is not just vegan and simple to make, but doesn’t even need flour! There’s nothing wrong with good flour, but it’s good not to eat too much of it, especially wheat flour.

This fudgy cake is not too sweet, made with no oil (it uses applesauce) and sweetened with coconut sugar. The secret ingredient is almond flour (which is not really flour) by whizzing up slivered almonds until they turn into what looks like flour! It also means this cake is rich in protein and calcium.

Choose organic European-grown almonds, as American almonds have ethical issue with migratory bee-keeping etc (in simple terms, they are harming bees, by the way they are grown). 

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing. Read more on food safety for people and pets (chocolate, nuts and many other ingredients are unsafe near animal friends). 

For tinned ingredients, pop lids inside cans (or pop ring-pulls back over holes) to avoid wildlife getting trapped).

Chocolate is one of England’s most popular dessert foods. And supermarkets everywhere sell millions of chocolate cakes and puddings. But it’s very easy to make your own from simple plant-based affordable ingredients (choose Fair Trade chocolate, as cocoa is grown in the world’s poorest regions).