Vegan Orange Chocolate cake

I have been trying to be a bit more conscious about what I am eating. However, my sweet tooth is as stubborn as ever so, I decided to create this recipe to appease my sweet chocolate craving.

Ingredients

200g Self-raising flour

200g Demerara sugar

200ml Vegetable Oil

1 Orange

100g Cacao nibs

2 tbsp. Cacao powder

125ml Apple sauce

2-3 tbsp. of vanilla essence

1/2 tsp. almond essence

100 ml Water (or enough to get a smooth "cake-like" consistency)

Method

Preheat oven at 150 degrees Celsius. Place the demerara sugar and vegetable oil into a bowl and whisk.

Add the apple sauce and flour of choice the sugar and oil mixture

Then, add the cacao nibs, cacao powder, orange zest, vanilla and almond zest to the mixture

Place cake mixture into a baking tin. I used a loaf tin but, you can choose whichever shape tin. I also created a vegan lemon and coconut cake recipe which I will be uploading soon.

Bake the cake for 40-50 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius.

I normally use a skewer to test whether the cake is done. If the skewer comes out with some wet cake mixture on it place cake back in the over for another 10-15 minutes.

To decorate my cake, I melted some dark chocolate and drizzled it over the top.

Why not try out this recipe and let me know how it turns out!!!