the week after

I can't believe I would actually say this..but I'm tired of cooking. When I feel obligated to cook..it takes any joy out of it for me. I will always love reading recipes. But for this moment I'm tired of the measuring, the pots and pans. The baking, the frying and siffting and rolling.
However..my work here is far from done. This isn't usually the type of recipe that I would share due to the lack of butter and eggs (two staples for any baker) but I being a vegetarian I realize some push it to the vegan limit. I don't have that discipline. However, noone should live without chocolate cake. So here is a chocolate vegan cake recipe with vegan frosting
Ingredients
1 1/4 cup all purpose (flour that is)
1 cup sugar,(make sure its vegan sugar depending on how strict the vegan in your life is..cane sugar uses a bleaching process that uses animal bones in the process.)
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup warm water
1tsp vanilla
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp distilled white vinegar

Preheat your oven to 350. In a bowl mix your flour, sugar, cocoa powder,bakind soda and salt. Add water,vanilla,oil and vinegar. Mix well. Pour into a 8x8 square pan that's been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake for 30 minutes until knife comes out clean.

Vegan buttercream frosting
6 tbs soy margerine. Earth balance sticks are pretty good.
3/4 cup cocoa
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup rice milk. (Vanilla is good)
1 tsp vanilla
Cream the margerine. Add the cocoa and powdered sugar alternating with the rice milk.
Add vanilla and. Mix until smooth. Make sure your powdered sugar is sifted thru a strainer first. It just makes life easier. It will be easier to spread later. Makes two cups of frosting.

So I hope your vegan is impressed and appreciates all the trouble you went to in making this cake.
Off for now !

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