You may have previously read that I’m getting married.
The wedding’s now only 2 months away and I want to make my own wedding cake. So I guess you could say I’m crazy.
I’m not crazy enough to expect to make a full blown tiered cake to feed all of our guests! But I would like to make a small cake for Brendan and I to cut. There’s lots of sentimentality and DIY-stuff going on in our wedding and I’d like the cake to be part of that.
To make things trickier, Brendan and I are based in Sydney, but the wedding is in our hometown Brisbane. I’ll be visting Brisbane 1 month before the wedding date, so by then I need a cake recipe that can handle being frozen for a month until the wedding.
This is my first trial (emphasis on the word trial):
Almond, Lavender and Honey Cake. Nice idea, but the cake was wayyy too dense. And, it would be a tad weird for any guests who are expecting normal wedding cake. So it’s a no go. I’m not going to post the recipe for this one because it wasn’t perfect but here are some pictures.
My Second Try:
Vegan Chilli Chocolate Cake.
Delicious. I will try a Lavender and Honey version. Because I think that’s a bit more “me”.
In the meantime, let’s see how it lasts in the freezer for a month.
Vegan Chocolate Chilli Cake
Ingredients
1 & 1/2 cups plain flour
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 cup almond milk
1/3 cup grapeseed oil
1/4 teaspoon of vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
1. Pre-heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius (375 Fahrenheit) and grease and flour an 8 inch cake pan.
2. Sift and whisk all dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Combine all wet ingredients in a jug.
4. Mix wet ingredients into dry and stir until smooth.
5. Pour into cake tin and bake for around 35 minutes, watching carefully and turning if necessary.
6. Pop a toothpick into your cake. If the toothpick comes out clean then your good to go! Let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes then flip onto a wire cooling rack.
7. Ice if you like, I haven’t got there just yet!
