Vegan skúffukaka

Vegan chocolate cake

Skúffukaka is a typical Icelandic sheet cake - and that's exactly what the word skúffukaka means (" sheet cake ").

Skúffukaka is a classic chocolate cake with chocolate cream, often garnished with coconut flakes or sometimes with a little licorice in the dough or cream. Traditionally, recipes use thick milk or buttermilk, melted butter and eggs - so not for vegans.

This recipe for a vegan skúffukaka does not contain milk, butter or eggs, but instead uses almond milk and soft coconut oil. The oil makes the coconut flavor in the cake a little more noticeable than usual, but it goes very well with the coconut flakes on the cream!

Ingredients

250 g almond milk

135 g brown sugar

20 g soft coconut oil

150 g spelled flour

2 Tbsp baking cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

1 pinch of salt

1 Tbsp baking cocoa

100 g maple syrup

50 g coconut oil

1 pinch of ground vanilla

2 Tbsp desiccated coconut

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Mix the almond milk, sugar and coconut oil in a bowl with a mixer.

Then add the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt...

....and mix everything briefly until you have a nice, uniform dough.

Then put the dough into a square baking pan (approx. 20 x 30 cm)...

...and bake at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 20 minutes (test with a toothpick!).

Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool slightly.

Then, for the cream, mix the baking cocoa with the maple syrup, the coconut oil and the ground vanilla, then spread the mixture on the cake....

...and sprinkle directly with the coconut flakes.

Then let it solidify a little in the fridge, cut the cake into cubes and serve fresh from the fridge.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]