Something Special Dark Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Double Chocolate Mini Cake: serves 2

Cake

• 3/4 cup vegan milk
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 3/4 cup cane sugar/brown sugar
• 1/2 cup veg oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 3/4 cup whole wheat/oat/almond flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa/cacao
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• A dash of honey/agave/maple syrup, if desired

Frosting

• 1/4 cup tofu
• 1/2 cup cashew butter
• 1/3 cup raw powdered sugar
• 1/4 veg oil/vegan butter
• 1/2 cup non-dairy milk
• Vanilla seeds from 1 pod
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup agave/honey/maple syrup
• 1/8-1/4 cup booze (I used maple whiskey)
• 1/2 bar melted dark

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To make the cake, mix ingredients from first list together and let sit for 5 minutes. Sift in the rest of the ingredients and stir until smooth. Taste it to make sure it's to your liking.
2. Pour evenly into two 9 inch cake pans lined with foil. The batter should be pretty shallow in both; that's because you're going to be making 4 layers. Bake for about 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
3. While they're baking, make the icing. Blend all the ingredients together until smooth. It should taste like the best freaking chocolate icing ever. Set aside.
4. When done baking, let the cakes sit out in the pans for 10 minutes. Then take them out and use a giant cookie cutter (big circle) to cut out 4 cake circles - 2 from each cake. Put the bottom layer onto something you can easily transfer it with later. Then frost each layer and finally the top and sides.