Crazy Cake - Chocolate Vegan Cake: Recipe

Not always a great quality is due to the high price and incredible effort. Vegan cake "Crazy" - a remarkable confirmation of this. Its cost price is extremely low, no hard-to-reach products are required for it, and even a seventh-grader can easily cope with cooking. And, nevertheless, his wonderful chocolate taste is famous all over the world!

Let's try to cook this wonderful dessert. And while he's baking, we'll dig a little into the story - after all, it's so interesting and unusual!

About the Great Depression, world fame and universal love

At the beginning of the last century, America was going through hard times ... General unemployment, inflation, the lack of the most necessary - all this primarily affected the lives of ordinary people. However, the rest of the world did not live any better.

What does cooking have to do with it, you ask? But it was political and economic processes that led to the emergence of one of the most popular desserts in the world. And it was in those harsh conditions that a recipe for a super-chocolate "crazy pie" was born, which even after almost a hundred years is pleased with adults and kids in all corners of the earth. And almost all the year round - yes, yes, even during church posts!

Chocolate vegan cake. Recipe

Do not you think that the word "crazy" came from nowhere? This is the usual cakes are made according to all sorts of boring rules, not Crazy Cake! Therefore, we do not even need a bowl for the test. And we shall not extinguish soda with vinegar, as it usually happens. We'll be right in the form for the cake to cook, like this. First, we pour 2 cups of flour, add 0.5 cups of cocoa, a teaspoon of soda and a glass of sugar.

And in another vessel we mix 3/4 cups of refined oil with two glasses of water and a tablespoon of vinegar. We pour the liquid into the mold, mix it thoroughly and send it to a preheated oven to 180 ^o C.

Nepahanoe field of experiments

Who does not like chocolate? Well, if someone does not like him, then he has not many like-minded people. We all just love, so we are preparing a vegan chocolate cake. And with what is the best combination of chocolate? Unequivocally answer this question oh how uneasy ... You can safely list a variety of products: nuts and dried fruits, fresh berries, cottage cheese, cream, caramel and much more.

And all these wonderful additions can be used for culinary experiments with Crazy Cake pie. Do you want diversity? Just add a handful of chopped hazelnut, a few chopped slices of dried prunes or dried apricots, half a glass of raisins.

And here's another unusual way of making dessert, so to speak, for adults. In the dough for cakes we add a glass of fresh, frozen or dried cherries. Top with one or two spoons of aromatic instant coffee. Ready cakes impregnate cognac and cover with melted bitter chocolate. And, despite the relatively small cost, we get a dish worthy of a respectable restaurant.

Love baking with berries? Feel free to experiment with raspberries, currants, blueberries, cranberries. Do not leave unattended and exotic: slices of mandarins, kiwi, pineapples, bananas. Especially delicious taste of dessert is obtained if berries or pieces of fruit before filling in the dough caramelize in ordinary or brown sugar.

However, you can cook any favorite cream and our cake will turn into a real cake, which will decorate even a festive festive table.

And who said that the dough prepared with this recipe should be poured into a pie form? This is not necessary! We take molds for muffins, fill it up to half, bake until ready and decorate at our discretion. An excellent addition to the evening tea drinking, and with them you can take on the road as a snack.

Find for vegans

The first Crazy Cake literally drew from what was at hand, from simple and inexpensive products that are in every home. Apparently, the inventors were so pleased with the result that they generously shared the recipe with neighbors and friends, and those in turn, with someone else. Over time, "crazy pie" liked those who observe church fasts - after all, there is not a single short-lived product in it. Today, many people use the name "vegan cake" for this dessert, but, for the sake of justice, I must say that even though it fits into the concept of vegetarianism, the inventor did not set such a goal before himself. Although this hardly makes any difference to those who do not eat animal products. After all, the main thing is that their culinary treasury was supplemented with a recipe for a delicious, fragrant, very chocolate and inexpensive pie.

Cream and topping in the same style

And since it's about vegetarian cuisine, it's worth mentioning about the cream. Those who decided to prepare a real vegan cake, you should not use to buy a tiled chocolate (because it contains dairy products). It is better to boil the icing from ordinary cocoa. Do not forget about the classic vegan spices: pectin, agar-agar, with which you can prepare a lot of useful and delicious sweets.

By the way, you can decorate a vegan cake with the usual berry jelly. A syrup of jam is great for impregnating cakes.

You can cook a special vegan cream. This recipe is also suitable for those who keep fasting or do not eat animal products for medical reasons. For the preparation of "filling" we will take vegan margarine, gradually adding sugar. Beforehand, you can briefly hold a sprig of vanilla in the sugar - then the cream will have the appropriate flavor.

Very tasty cream is obtained from coconut milk. It should be simply cooled and shaken with sugar powder (or agave syrup) to homogeneity. With a chocolate cake-the crazy coconut flavor blends simply superbly!

Other vegan sweets

In a healthy kitchen, there are other recipes for desserts. For example, vegan cake without baking. And, by the way, not one! While our "crazy pie" is being baked, we will get acquainted with the experience of those who prefer healthy food.

So, vegans prepare a lot of wonderful cakes without baking. Usually they are based on purchased biscuits made from ground nuts, dried fruits, cereals. You can decorate such a cake with fruits and berries. And how to make vegan cream for such a pie, we already know.

Feed to the table

Is not it time to peek into the oven? The vegan cake is baked fairly quickly!

To cake without difficulty jumped out of the form, let him cool down a little, putting a damp towel under the bottom. And while the house is spreading an amazing chocolate flavor, we'll get a large serving dish, on which our cake will be displayed in the middle of the table. The surface of the cake can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or fried nuts. And as a supplement, you can brew a delicious tea or serve fruit compote.

By the way, vegan cake, the recipe of which came to us from across the ocean, you can also apply to overseas alcoholic beverages: punch, mulled wine, sangria.