vegan chocolate fudge cake

Hi! 

Today I am going to be telling you how to make a kidney bean chocolate fudge cake.  To make it even more special I have given you the recipe for my favourite icing!!

Chocolate bean cake

To make this you will need:
75 ml coconut oil
400g drained kidney beans
100g rice flour
50g cocoa or raw cacao powder
1.5 tsp baking powder
100g dark chocolate
2.5 chia eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tblsp date syrup
1 - 2 tblsp maple syrup

Put your oven on to 180C.  Melt the chocolate & coconut oil together.  Drain the kidney beans and add all the ingredients together in a food processor or blender.  Blend until smooth.  Line a 20" cake tin.  pour your cake mixture into it.  TIP! if the mixture looks a bit stiff, don't be afraid to add a little more almond milk.  Bake for around 20 mins or until when you stick a knife into the middle it comes out clean.

My favourite Chocolate & peanut butter icing

For this you will need:

3 Tblsp maple syrup

Either.. 4 tblsp cocoa or cacao OR 75g dark chocolate

1 tblsp of peanut or almond butter

3 tblsp vegan butter or coconut oil

Once the cake is cool mix all of your ingredients together to create a smooth icing.  If you are using dark chocolate or coconut oil you will need to melt these first!  Cover the cake with icing then top with anything you like.  I added fresh strawberries to mine and it was amazing!