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.
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, I used 72% original beans cru virunga
250g plant based ‘butter’, I used stork
Method
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
Ganache & finishing Method
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