50 Recipes, #17: Vegan Rich Chocolate Cake

[nonelvis]

My brother-in-law's birthday is later this week, so my sister decided to turn today's barbecue into a surprise birthday party for him. I was in charge of making the cake, and since a couple of vegans were going to be present, I picked the Post-Punk Kitchen's rich chocolate cake recipe, which was fabulous – not just a terrific vegan cake, but a terrific chocolate cake, period. Its only drawback is one typical to many vegan cake recipes – it's very tender, so it's a little tricky to frost, and I wouldn't recommend trying to split the layers in half. Next time, I'll put the layers in the freezer to solidify first, and will make enough frosting for a crumb coat. (Frosting recipe, if you want it, is here; 1.5x the recipe will be just enough to frost a 9" cake with a layer of frosting in between. I also added seedless raspberry jam in between the layers.)

The best part of the cake besides eating it? The Darth Vader cake topper I found for my Star Wars-fanatic brother-in-law.



I tell you, it isn't a party until the Dark Lord of the Sith arrives.

Comments

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

But did you hum the Imperial March instead of sing Happy Birthday when you brought the cake in?

[nonelvis]

No, but that was the music he and my sister used to enter their wedding reception.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe!

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[xeney.livejournal.com]

Ooh, did you find the cake topper locally or online somewhere? Jeremy's birthday is in a few weeks and he would love that.

Although I will probably be making cupcakes since we are going on a bike ride and I'm not sure we can haul a whole cake in the trailer.

[xeney.livejournal.com]

Oh, never mind, ten seconds on Google found me assorted Star Wars cupcake toppers! I'm golden. Thank you for the idea and I apologize for so shamelessly stealing it!

[nonelvis]

No need to apologize -- the important thing is that Jeremy enjoys his birthday cupcakes!

By the way, when you were googling for cupcake toppers, did you get a link to this cake? It's both amazing and frightening.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

He's holding a CANDLE. I think I love this.

[nonelvis]

It looks even better when you light it. Unfortunately, the lighting in that room was crap, so I couldn't get a good photo of the lit candle.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. Have bookmarked that recipe, thank you.

I tell you, it isn't a party until the Dark Lord of the Sith arrives.

It never is.

[nonelvis]

Seriously, read the copy on the packaging and tell me Darth isn't a partying kind of guy.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Even better in French!