Description
Healthy, simple and raw vegan chocolate cake
Ingredients
Scale
For the base cake
- 1 cup of roasted unsalted almonds
- 2 cups of roasted unsalted hazelnuts
- 200g of high quality dark chocolate (minimum 50%, 70% if you like very dark and not sweet)
For the ganache
- 2 cans full fat coconut milk
- 500g high quality chocolate
- 1 tbsp of salt
Instructions
For the ganache
- Place the pieces of chocolate in a medium mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a sauce pot add the coconut milk and salt and whisk.
- Heat the milk mixture on medium high heat until smooth.
- Pour the milk over the chocolate.
- Make sure all the chocolate is covered. Let sit for 2 minutes.
- Stir gently to incorporate the milk and chocolate.
- When the chocolate is melted, the ganache should be smooth.
- Place a piece of plastic wrap directly over the top of the ganache.
- Place in the fridge for 2 hours.
For the base cake
- Melt the chocolate.
- Mix in a food processor the nuts for a 2 minutes until in small pieces.
- Add chocolate to the nuts and mix together for 3 minutes.
- Use a 10″ spring form in silicon so it won’t stick.
- Press the nut mixture into the pan until having a thick base.
- Put in refrigerator for 1hour.
Assemble
- Mix the ganache with an electric hand mixer for 4 minutes on medium speed.
- You want to make sure it’s smooth and not too liquid.
- Put back in refrigerator if too liquid.
- When the consistency easy to spread like a thick cream, pour on top of the base.
- Freeze for 2 hours minimum before removing the silicon mold.
- Store in refrigerator before serving and decorate as you wish.
- You can store the rest of the cake in your freezer up to one month.