Recipe: VEGAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

CHOCOLATE SURPRISE CAKE (VEGAN)
2 cups flour (1 cup wheat, 1 cup all purpose white)
1 cup sugar
1 T cornstarch
2 t baking soda
¼ t salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 cup applesauce (unsweetened)
½ cup chocolate soy milk

1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 8x11 glass pan.
2. Sift all dry ingredients together in a large bowl, removing any lumps.
3. Add applesauce and soy milk, and mix well until batter is smooth.
4. Pour into pan and bake for 30 minutes (or until done).
5. While cake bakes, prepare the pudding frosting (see below).
6. When cake is done, remove from oven and using a wooden spoon handle, poke holes all over the top of the cake through to the bottom of the pan. (Be careful not to poke too many holes!)
7. Pour the hot pudding frosting into the holes and all over the top.
8. As pudding frosting cools and continues to fill the holes, spread evenly with a knife to frost the top (up to 1 hour), then decorate.


CHOCOLATE PUDDING FROSTING (VEGAN)
1/3 cup sugar
4 t cocoa powder (unsweetened)
2 T cornstarch
dash salt
2 cups chocolate soy milk
1 t vanilla

1. Sift all dry ingredients together in a bowl, removing lumps, then gradually add 1 cup soy milk, whisking constantly. Stir in the rest of the milk.
2. Pour into sauce pan, and cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until pudding thickens and boils with large rolling bubbles.
3. Add vanilla. Whisk through, and remove from heat.
4. Stir occasionally to break through cooling top until cake is done.

Cake recipe is adapted from http://vegetarian.about.com/od/desertrecipes/r/applesaucecake.htm
Pudding recipe taken from http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/veganchocolatepudding.html