- I chose this life.
I chose the having cake for lunch life.
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Hey guys.
I know I don't do this very often
but today am going to bake something.
And there's a lot of ingredients in front of me.
You are probably like Candice,
you've lost your mind.
You are not very good at baking.
Why would you bake with so many ingredients?
Well, today I'm going to show you
how to make
one of the easiest foolproof chocolate cakes ever.
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So like I said earlier,
today I'm gonna show you how to make
the easiest, quickest like no brainer
foolproof chocolate cake.
You don't really need any replacements of any sort.
No egg replacers.
No, nothing like that.
It's just really simple, quick, easy ingredients.
Chances are if you bake at all,
these are definitely going to be in your place.
Who's gonna use basic flour,
sugar, cocoa powder, of course salt,
baking powder and baking soda.
And then because it is a really delicious,
easy chocolate cake,
I like to bring up the chocolate flavor
with a little bit of espresso powder or instant coffee.
On the wet side of things,
we're going to use
just whatever your favorite plant based milk is.
I have soy milk,
some apple sauce,
vanilla, vinegar and coconut oil,
which is over here melting.
So it's really simple.
It's quick. It's easy.
I always have some sort of version of this in my fridge.
I'm going to show you
how to do some quick, easy substitutions.
So if you're gluten free,
for example, you can use
one to one Bob's Red Mill gluten free flour to do that,
and then it's gluten free,
which is amazing.
Alright, so let's get this out.
So in a large bowl,
we're going to start with our dry ingredients.
So I have some flour here.
I'm gonna add that into the bowl.
So like I said,
if you want this to be gluten free,
you can just add
the Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 Gluten Free Flour substitute.
Or if you have like your favorite brand
of 1-to-1 flour that is gluten free,
that works too.
We have some sugar.
I'm going to add my cocoa powder.
Now what I've done is
I've sifted both the cocoa powder
and I've sifted the flour.
Cocoa powder and the flour were both sifted.
Our espresso powder,
(ingredients mixing)
baking soda, baking powder and salt
and then whisk that all together.
You'll want to do the majority of the whisking here
because once we add in the wet for this,
you don't want to over mix it.
I like to just do a little whisk
and really get any lumps out of there
but if you sifted everything properly
there shouldn't be too many.
I'm going to very slowly mix in my wet
into my dry ingredients.
And you don't want to overmix this too much
because then you're kind of
you're making that chemical reaction between the sodas,
baking soda, the baking powder
and the vinegar happened too quickly.
So that you definitely want it to be incorporated.
You just don't wanna overmix it.
It's going to look quite liquidy
but that's okay.
So I like this recipe
because it turns out every single time.
We don't have to worry about egg replacers
or vegan butter or anything like that.
So this will make one kind of layered cake.
One nine inch layered cake
or 24 or two dozen cupcakes
and honestly if I have to throw a cake together
for whatever reason
I don't know where,
or like last minute
or if I'm having people overnight,
don't have anything in the house
to like serve outside of my backyard with my wine
and I like to serve dessert with wine,
then I will just kind of throw this together
and a lot of those pre-made icings
in the grocery store
are accidentally vegan,
so you don't even have to really worry about the icing
if you don't want to.
I mean if you prefer homemade icing do that.
This is a great base for like a German chocolate cake
with you know that like amazing coconut icing
that it has.
Brown sugar and coconut. Hot so good.
The perfect base for that
or if you wanted to do like a black forest cake,
this is a great place for that
or just like a chocolate on top of birthday cake.
Okay, so now I have my lined baking pans here.
These are both nine inch.
I just greased them and lined them with parchment.
If you have a silicon baking pan like this.
This is a springform you don't really have to worry about
lining it like this.
I just hate more than anything else
and I have such bad luck with it,
when the cake sticks to the pan.
So that's also why I use springform pans
coz I find that they're easier to get the cake out.
So I'm going to evenly divide this cake batter
between these two guys
and then we're gonna pick it.
These are the types of like baking hacks
that I like to share
because I'm not good at baking.
Baking is more of a science.
Cooking is more of like an art if you will.
There's a lot more creative freedom with cooking
than there's baking.
I hope to get better at baking one day meal,
take some sort of like baking course or something.
You are a little bit skeptical
or you tend to go to those boxed cake mixes
which are also happened to be vegan
because of the cheaper ingredients used in those
than this especially if you don't have
a box cake mix at home.
This is actually quite simple
and I believe that you can throw it together.
Alright, I'm going to throw this into my oven.
I'm going to bake it at 350 for 30 minutes.
So I have two chilled, cool to the touch cakes.
I let them sit for a few hours.
I just covered them
just to make sure that they were completely cooled.
Because there's nothing worse than icing.
You think a cake is cooled and you start icing it.
(beep)
That's a totally different channel (laughs).
There will be no sitting on these cakes.
Thank you.
Icing it and then it starts dripping down.
So I just let it cool for a while.
And now we can ice it.
So I just have chocolate icing chocolate cake.
Who doesn't like chocolate cake?
I mean, you can add whatever icing you want to it.
So I'm just gonna plop it on there,
one of them
and just rough, like very crudely roughly
because I'm not good at cake decorating.
I'm just going to kind of roughly ice it.
I mean this part is really up to you.
So again, whatever frosting, icing
whatever you want to put on it,
or if you just want to leave it as is.
That's fine.
I did flip the cakes upside down
so that's nice and flat on the top here
and I love a layered cake
with lots of frosting in the middle.
Uuh! So that's what we're gonna do.
And I put my little kickstand
onto a Lazy Susan
because then I can move around freely.
And it's just a lot easier
as my 'I'm not good at icing Cakes' has taught me
is that this is definitely easier on me.
It's easier on you when you're watching.
Good for everyone.
All right. So just a big blob in the middle.
Spread it out.
The other guy on top
and do the same thing.
Okay, so we have this guy iced.
I'm going to decide
if I want to ice the sides or not
depending on how this looks with the top layer.
Good, centered.
I hope it's centered.
Yes. Perfect.
So again, icing on the top,
and then I can just bring it down the sides.
- Oh! That looks like fun.
- (giggles) That fun trick,
if you are using store bought icing
is just throw it into your,
I mean, if you have an electric mixer,
just the hand mixer,
you can use that.
Just whip it up and it just whips some air into it,
that makes it nice and fluffy.
And then it kind of looks like you made it from scratch.
Like you didn't.
Quick hack for you.
I already have anxiety about the comments
that people are going to make about
how I'm not doing this correctly (laughs).
And that's okay.
I'm making a mess.
So I do things around here.
All right, I'm just gonna slop it on there
and then clean it up at the end.
I kind of just like the look of naked cakes.
So that's what we're gonna do.
Plus am lazy.
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Alright guys, now is the moment of truth.
It's time to eat.
Mmh! Really so good.
Mmh! It really is just the easiest chocolate cake
and it's so easy and moist
and delicious and tasty
and the espresso powder into coffee,
whichever one you decide to use
just really deepens the flavor of the chocolate.
It really brings it out.
If you're looking for like a quick, easy cake,
no brainer, probably have all the ingredients at home,
this is definitely the way to go.
And then just throw your favorite icing on there
or buy some from the store,
whip it up and throw it on there.
You can make it look pretty
with just some shaved chocolate
and it's really that easy.
And if I pulled this off
and didn't screw it up,
then you'll have no problem.
Make this.
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I love them having cake for lunch.
Mmh! Mmh!
So happy.