Chocolate Cake /w Peanut Butter Frosting.

I made this little beauty (and I mean little, it didn't rise as much as I'd have hoped for, but what are you gonna do) a couple of weeks ago for my dad's 44th birthday, hence the candles in the shape of 44. Sorry for the poor pic, but I really didn't think about snapping a picture at the time as much as I was thinking about devouring it. This is a pretty generic vegan cake recipe, and it may not be perfect, but it works, and you can tweak it how you'd like to fit your taste. I'll include both the cake recipe and the frosting recipe. Of course, you don't have to use the peanut butter frosting, but if you do, it tastes like a fluffy reeses peanut butter cup.

Chocolate Cake.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups dry vegan sweetener
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup vegan margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups soy milk
• 3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon + 1 1/2 teaspoons Ener G Egg Replacer
• 6 tablespoons water
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 oz vegan unsweetened baking chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil a 9"x13" baking pan and set aside.
2. Combine the soy milk with the vinegar or lemon juice and let sit for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the egg replacer and water in a small bowl, and mix until frothy-set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, dry sweetener, soda, cream of tartar, and salt.
4. Add margarine, half the soy milk-vinegar mixture, egg replacer-water mixture, and vanilla and mix for 2 minutes.
5. Add remaining soymilk-vinegar and melted chocolate. Mix for an additional 2 minutes.
6. Spread into the prepared pan and bake for 38-45 minutes, or until a fork/ knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter, softened
• 1/3 cup vegan margarine, softened
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons soy milk
• 1-2 cups powdered sugar, or other vegan sweetener

1. Whisk together the peanut butter, margarine, maple syrup, vanilla, and soy milk
2. slowly incorporate the powdered sugar/ sweetener, using a little bit more or less to get the desired consistency.
3. Spread onto Vegan chocolate cake as prepared above after the cake has had some time to cool down.

Enjoy everybody!