Chocolate Avocado Cake
adapted from the edible perspective
3 cups whole wheat pastry or all-purpose flour
8 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups sucanat or granulated sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil (I used cold-pressed canola oil)
1/2 cup soft avocado, well mashed, about 1 medium avocado
1 cup water
1 c almond milk
2 Tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8 or 9-inch rounds or 1 9 x 13-inch pan. Sift together all of the dry ingredients except the sugar. Set that aside.
Mix all the wet ingredients together in a bowl, including the super mashed avocado.
Add sugar into the wet mix and stir.
Mix the wet with the dry all at once, and beat with a whisk (by hand) until smooth.
Pour batter into a greased cake tins. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cakes cool in pan for 15 minutes, remove from pan and place on rack to cool completely before frosting.
Coconut Dream Frosting
1/3 c non-hydrogenated shortening or butter alternative like Earth Balance
1/4 c coconut butter*
1/3 c light coconut milk
2-3 c powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Cream shortening and coconut butter in ingredients in bowl of stand-mixer with whisk attachment (or in a bowl to blend by hand or with hand mixer). Slowly add powdered sugar as you mix at low speed. Add vanilla and coconut milk in a tablespoon or so at a time (you may not need the full amount), until frosting reaches the desired consistency. Frost cake once cool. Enjoy!
*to make coconut butter at home, get some unsweetened dry, shredded coconut and put in a food processor until creamy.
2 comments:
I just tried to make this and it turned out abysmally. The cake was okay, not fabulous. But the frosting was the real disappointment. I tried making the coconut butter as the recipe instructs, but it never turned into anything remotely creamy--just little coconut bits. Thus the texture of the icing was just gritty and weird.
So sorry to hear that the frosting recipe it didn't turn out for you! It is possible to buy coconut butter at the store, and that may provide a more reliable consistency. I imagine you could also use firm virgin coconut oil in place of the coconut butter. The first time I tried to make coconut butter, I used unsweetened dried coconut I got from the bulk section of my grocery store, and it was particularly dry. It took almost 10 minutes in the food processor to get into anything remotely 'creamy'. I tried again with a slightly less dry bagged coconut and had better results.
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