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Celebrating 17 May Norwegian National Day

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Hello, friends, food lovers, and community greetings! Recently, we celebrated 17 May, the Norwegian national day. As usual, everybody likes to have a treat that day. The main dessert on that day is different cakes using lots of cream and berries. But this time, I wanted to try my vegan chocolate cake using oat milk. It is nice to share this delicious recipe with you, vegan lovers.

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Ingredients:
2.5 cups of white flour
200 grams of sugar
250 ml/1 cup of oat milk.
1 cup cocoa powder
1.5 tsp of baking powder
2 pinches of salt
1 lemon zest
100 grams of dark chocolate
3/4 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup cashews soaked in water for at least 3-4 hours and drained water.
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Making oat milk
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1/2 cup soaked oatmeal
1.5 cups of water
1 tbsp oil
How to prepare oat milk
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In soaked oats, add 1 cup water and 1 tbsp oil.
Using an immersion blender, I blended it until a smooth paste.
Using a cheese cloth, strained it. Here, I used 1/2 cup more water. milk and fibers were separated.
You can maintain thickness according to your choice.

20220516_102207.jpegfrom 1/2 cup oatmeal I got 350 ml milk. I used 270 ml for the cake.
The leftover milk I kept in the refrigerator. can stay around 3-4 days, you can use it when you need.
The leftover fibers can be used in bread or porridge.

Preparing cake
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Brushed a cake pan using a few drops of oil and placed a baking paper on the bottom, then brushed oil on it. Kept it aside.

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I used 250 grams, a little more than 1 cup of oat milk, in this cake.

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In a mixing bowl, mixed oat milk and oil.
Mixed it well.

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Added 150 grams of sugar, saved 50 grams. Made a nice mixture.

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Added lemon zest.

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Added 1/2 cup cocoa powder to a half cup of water and mixed it until well combined. Added 1 tsp vanilla extract.

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Poured the cocoa syrup into the mixture of oat milk, oil sugar mixture.

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Mixed it well.

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Added flour mixed with a pinch of salt and baking powder.

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Mixed it lightly until well combined.

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Added chopped chocolate to the mixture.

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Placed the mixture in the cake pan.

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Baked it in a preheated oven at 180 C for around 40- 45 minutes.
It should be more/less minutes, depending on your oven.

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Let it cool down.

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Add 1/2 cup of cocoa and cook until it turned into a syrup.
Remove from the heat and cool it down.

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Poured the cocoa syrup into the cake cracks. Saved 2 tbsp for making cream.

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Removed the baking paper from the cake bottom.
Placed the cake on a plate

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In a mixer jar, put the soaked cashews and the remaining cocoa syrup.blended it until fine paste.

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Added powdered sugar, mixed it well, and ran the mixer for 2 more minutes.

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Poured the cashew cream on top of the cake.
Used a fork to make a design.

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Mixed powdered sugar and a few drops of water, made a sticky paste to write on top.

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GRATULERER MED DAGEN HAPPY 17 MAY

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