For all those in the US, hope you all had a great Memorial Day Weekend. It was after a long time that we had a 3 day weekend. It is the un-official start of summer and we are already experiencing hot, sultry dayshere in our neck of the woods. We stayed back at home and had a fun, relaxing family time.
This break also gave me an opportunity to try out some of the bookmarked recipes and baking experiments. On one such baking escapade I tried this Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake from Susan’s Fat Free Vegan Kitchen.
Visiting Susan’s blog is not only inspiring but also great learning experience. The way she creates, thinks, presents her recipes with details speaks volumes about her passion and creativity. She has so many healthy recipe ideas delicious, healthy and drool worthy all this and more albeit Vegan and Fat Free. Now I am a vegetarian and I do not miss out the meat part. But then in my opinion cooking vegan and that too fat free is truly amazing. This changes our traditional way of cooking and takes it to a whole new level.
As Vaishali says “Her recipes — and there are hundreds of them — are not just healthy, environmentally friendly and cruelty free, but they all look so good, they make you want to rush into the kitchen and start cooking.” It is totally recommended that you do not look at the Recipe Index if you are starving, that will not do you any good J
I have many recipes bookmarked from her site. But I tried this Orange Chocolate Cake as I had all ingredients on hand. The cake turned out soft and delicious all this without any iota of fat in it. How good is that? See that piece of cake in the first picture with extra-extra helping of icing? OK that is for Your’s Truly. This is how I enjoyed my 3 day weekend and did not miss any opportunity to celebrate. J. Thank you Susan for this great recipe.
Off this goes to Tried & Tasted: FatFree Vegan Kitchen event guest hosted by Vaishali of Holy Cow. This event was started by Zuzana of Zlamushka’s Spicy Kitchen.
Recipe:
- The recipe for this cake is here.
yum..yum Cake! RC, your backyard looks so big and beautiful with full of greenery.
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Wow! I adore chocolate cake… And you’re telling me this is pretty guilt-free? I’m sold!
Chocolate and orange are my fav. combination. Lovely.
Love Orange Y chocolate together. Rememeber the Amul orang chocolate in india. This looks awesome.
I love thw flavors of chocolate & orange together, looks soo good
Delicious cake..looks yum yum
The topping looks so good!
Wow tha tis vegan, looks so good and love the sace over it too. Just yummy super droley delicous.
Looks delicious RC. Cake without the butter is good for everybody 🙂
Oh wow droolworthy cake…..Love the glaze on it…..awesome….
How delicious-looking, RC! Love this cake, and the combination of chocolate and orange must be mindblowing. Thanks for sending it in!
looks delicious & picture look great ………
Looks super delicious, and that one was a good way to spend holidays 🙂
i just lvoe the combination of orange and chocolate! yummy!!
I made this cake too, but long time ago.. Didn’t take pictures so can’t submit for T&T :-(, but I’m made Susan’s Strawberry cake and it was delicious too. Love your pics.
I ve visited her place, she has a huge collection of vegan cooking! the sauce on top of ur cake is just amazing!
Gorgeous cake!!! lovely click RC…
Awesome Love the cake.I love the orange choc combo.
Gorgeous cake.. Thanks for participating T&T event. I hope you ll get a chance to come up with something delish for T&T Jue as well, the Blog of The Month is Meena of Hooked on Heat 🙂
Just found this web site. I have a friend who is lactose intollerent and has nut allergies this cake recipe will please her
This looks delicious! The original recipe calls for a bundt cake pan. Did you make it using two 9″ cake pans? How long did you bake it? Could I freeze this cake? Thanks for this wonderful recipe.
Thanks Joan. Yes I used 9″ cake pans and I baked it at 350F for 40 minutes. Even though I have not freezed this cake, I am sure it will freeze just fine.