Allergen-Free Chocolate Cake

Name: Allergen-Free Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 2 tsp baking powder; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 60 g cocoa powder; 360 g self-raising flour; 140 ml sunflower oil, plus more for the tins; 400 g golden caster sugar; 1 tsp salt; 400 g raspberries; icing sugar, to dust; 4 tsp white wine vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Those with food allergies and intolerances have birthdays too! This is egg, dairy and nut-free, but is a really dark, moist, quite fragile chocolate cake for everyone to enjoy. If gluten is a problem, then substitute the flour with rice flour, checking that both the cocoa powder and baking powder are gluten-free as well.

Ingredients

For the Cake

140 ml sunflower oil, plus more for the tins
360 g self-raising flour
60

Cake
Birthday
Baking
Vegan

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/340°F/gas mark 3½. Oil two 23cm cake tins and line the bases with baking parchment.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Stir in the sugar. In another bowl, measure the oil, <