How to Make a Vegan Chocolate Cake

Series Summary

As much as they can, vegans seek alternatives to food and clothing that in any way cause cruelty to animals. There are indeed a myriad of foods to choose from that fall under this category and corresponding to that, there are many tasty vegan recipes by which you can prepare your food. These recipes however are neither mainstream nor found at very many restaurants but they are easy to make in your own home. If you would like to learn how to prepare vegan recipes learn from our expert vegan chef.

In this free online video series learn vegan dessert recipes from Culinary Instructor Chef A.J. She will teach you step by step how to make a delicious vegan triple chocolate cake, how to make chocolate and tofu mousse, as well as chocolate mousse made with avocados. Learn also how to make chocolate glaze, raspberry coolie, and real fruit ice cream.

Video Transcript

" Hi! Nili Nathan I'm here at the School of Chef Inc. Culinary School and with me is Chef Aj Hello! Hi! She is a vegan of raw food chef and culinary instructor. That is right and your are going to be showing us some delicious desserts today. In this series of healthy dessert cooking. What is the first thing that you are going to make? We are going to make a delicious vegan chocolate cake it has no eggs, no diary, no butter, no cream and has no cholesterol. No sugar? This one receipt is going to use organic sugar but this would be the only one because this is like a special occasion cake and its just sometimes you just go to go a little bit with the sugar. It sounds great. Thank you! Lets get started. Well first thing I'm going to do is mix my dry ingredients together I'm going to take 3 cups of organic unbleached flour. You want to make sure that its unbleached you don't want all those chemicals in there to why do you need flour anyway because it is going to be a chocolate cake you know. So all the ingredients by the way you could get at any local health food store that we are using there are really not hard to find. So we are going to add 3 cups of these organic unbleached white flour. Unfortunately you can't just substitute wheat flour in a receipt you can but its not going to be cup for cup just so you know. Okay. And this next thing is the sugar 2 cups. Regular? Well it is regular sugar buts it is just made by the sugar cane. Okay that is good. It's the natural sugar cane that is cut and dried so that there is no preservatives or additives so I got my dry ingredients going on here the most important one for the chocolate cake is I have a organic coco powder fare trade. Okay. That is unsweetened? Yes it is unsweetened coco powder and I'm going to use a half of cup of that. It smells good. It does smell good and you know you could actually I been experimenting a lot with just the raw coco nibs and you can use that. I use them to! They are delicious. I put them in a vita-mix to make smoothies. Aren't they great? And they are so fun and they are so chocolate and they are so natural and you somebody could not have chocolate for whatever reason you could use carob powder in a cake like this. Sure. You could substitute. So I got my dry ingredients going on here but I need some baking soda. Ops lets just open that up, most people have a box of this in there house, always make sure that its fresh though you have to look for the expiration. 2 teaspoons of these and a teaspoon of sea salt. I always recommend sea salt its the best tasting. You are using a Celtic sea salt. Yes I like the brand but any sea salt would be fine it doesn't have to be. Celtic is a little healthier. It is. It has about 50 minerals. In Himalaya salt is another good one but what I like about is it actually just taste good you know. It does its not process. Its great. Its just from the sea and its dry and you know there is so many choices when it comes to sea salt. I got this from the sea and its dried and there is so many choices when comes sea salt. So I got my dry ingredients here."