Chocolate Birthday Cake

Chocolate Birthday Cake

ingredients

• 2 cups tigernut flour

• 1//2 cup tapioca flour or arrowroot

• 1/2 cup cacao powder, sifted and leveled

• 1/2 cup coconut sugar

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3 large eggs

• 1/2 cup plant-based milk

• 1/2 cup oil (coconut, olive or avocado)

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

• 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

For the icing:

• 1/2 cup full fat canned coconut milk (the top creamy part)

• 1 cup chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate

• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC

2. Line three 6” round baking pans with parchment paper, set aside

3. In a mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, oil, vanilla and apple cider vinegar.

4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk batter until smooth.

5. Pour an equal amount of batter into each of the lined cake pans

6. Place the pans in the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes. Remove cakes from the oven and cool in their pan for 10 minutes.

7. Transfer cakes to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

8. For the icing, melt all icing ingredients over a low simmer until the chocolate has just melted. Then whip with a spatula until smooth and chill in the fridge for a few hours until it reaches frosting consistency.

9. When the frosting is ready and the cakes are fully cooled, ice the cakes, put the layers on top of each other and ice some more!