Ravneet Gill's Lazy Persons Chocolate Cake
First up is Rav’s famous LPC (lazy person’s cake) which she’s whipped up completely plant-based, and even more mouth-watering! Made with our great taste award-winning Oat Milk, which contains only three natural ingredients.
Ingredients
Wet mix
- 175ml oil
- 175g plant based yoghurt/coconut yoghurt
- 170ml water
- 100ml plenish oat milk
- 1 medium avocado/ 100g avocado
- 5g instant coffee
- Pinch of salt
Dry mix
- 125g caster sugar
- 125g light brown sugar
- 80g cocoa powder
- 230g plain flour
- 10g bicarbonate of soda
- 5g baking powder
Ganache
- 300ml Plenish oat milk
- 80g malt extract
- 300g dark chocolate
- 250g plant based ‘butter’
Method
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- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees fan/180 degrees oven
- Grease 2 x 8 inch cake tins and line with parchment paper on the bottom, cut 2 extra circles of parchment paper and leave these aside
- Put all of the wet ingredients into a blender and blitz well
- Put all of the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix with a whisk to combine
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix well to combine
- Divide the mixture between the 2 lined cake tins and put a circle of parchment paper on top of each cake mix
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until when a skewer is inserted it comes out clean
- Leave to rest for 20 minutes before flipping out onto a wire rack to cool completely
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Ganache & finishing Method
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- Warm the oat milk and malt extract together in a pan until steaming
- Add the chocolate in and mix well
- Blend with the plant based ‘butter’ and leave to sit for 1 hour
- Take one of the cakes and put it on a plate with a large lip, spoon some ganache on one side and put the other cake on top
- Pour ganache all over the top of the cake and put it in the fridge for 2 hours
- Use a small step palette knife to shape the ganache up the sides of the cake
- Put it on a clean plate and back in the fridge for another hour
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Serve and enjoy!