Re: What kind of diet do you follow? Eggless Chocolate cake recipe to follow

[Guest guest]

> Do you have the recipe for the cake? We're vegetarian, not quite

vegan,

,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your request for my egg-free,

dairy free chocolate cake recipe. I was up in Los Angeles getting

that vegan daughter settled into her new apartment....Ask me anything

about IKEA furniture. I am now officially an expert!

Okay, what follows is a really really really a good recipe for

chocolate cake that we frequently use for " special occasions " in our

house. It never lasts more than a night because certain unnamed

memebers of the family remain unable to walk by the kitchen without

slivering off " just a little bit " and then the darn thing is gone

before I get my " go-to-bed-with-a-glass-of-cold-skim-milk " slice.

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

8 tablespoons Hershey's unsweetened cocoa

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

3/4 cup canola oil

2 tablespoons applecider vinegar

2 tablesppons ailla

2 cups water

Sift dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients. Stir until smooth. Bake at

350 for 30-40 minutes (for 9 x 13 or round cake pans.) Cake should

spring back when touched. Toothpick should be clean when poked into

center of cake. Don't overbake. The cake is very moist.

For our vegan daughter, I will just sift a bit of powdered sugar on

top

to make it " pretty. " She treats herself to a scoop of vanilla soymilk

icecream with a slice of this cake.

There is another quickie version of this cake in " The Clueless

Vegetarian " which calls for

1 1/2 c. flour

1 c. sugar

1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. vinegar

1 tsp. vanila extract

1/3 c. canola oil

1 c. water

Mix the dry stuff. Add the wet stuff. Dump into a well greased 8 inch

square baking pan. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.

If you want to get fancier than powdered sugar for frosting, try

this:

1 cup non-dairy margarine

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 teas. vanilla extrat

2 cups powdered sugar.

Process margarine until smooth. Add the rest. Beat until smooth and

fluffy. Take a really big taste. Frost the cake with the rest.

> > If you are interested in any of my egg free recipes I'd be happy

to

> share with you too!

I would love it. What's your favorite dish??

W.

Mom to LIbby 22 yrs. old, psc '03, expert at shopping at IKEA with

her mother for furniture for her new apartment