Vegan chocolate

Vegan Chocolate is unique - Most chocolate, even dark chocolate, usually involves the use of milk. In dark chocolate there may be, for example, butterfat and skimmed milk or whey proteins, the reason being that milk proteins act as emulsifiers in order to mix well together cocoa solids and cocoa butter. However, if you are vegan or if you are intolerant or allergic to milk and dairy products, you do not have to give up eating chocolate, because nowadays you can find good vegan chocolate on the market. Vegan chocolate contains soy lecithin instead of milk proteins as emulsifier and there are some companies that produce only vegan chocolate. It is better to choose companies that make vegan only products, because companies that make milk chocolate can still use the same machinery to make vegan chocolate and milk chocolate. The machines are cleaned between each use, but there may still be traces of dairy products left.

Some companies that produce and sell online vegan chocolate

There are various companies that produce vegan chocolate and/or sell vegan chocolate online. We list some of them below:

• YachanaGourmet.com is a company based in Ecuador, which produces vegan fair trade chocolate
• Allisongourmet.com is a vegan online bakery that makes also organic chocolates
• Plamilfoods.co.uk are a producer of vegan foods, including chocolate
• Hotelchocolate.co.uk produce and sell only vegan chocolate
• Veganstore.co.uk, vegangoods.com and veganstore.com are an online shops, which sells everything vegan, including chocolate

Vegan chocolate and mint cake – recipe

Ingredients: 300 gr of wheat flour, 200 gr of sugar, 6 tablespoons of bitter cocoa powder; 6 tablespoons of baking powder; 5/6 fresh mint leaves cut into small bits; 1 teaspoon of salt; 500 ml of water; 190 ml of olive oil; 2 teaspoons of rice vinegar; 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract or a vanilla pod.

Turn on the oven at about 180 degrees Celcius. Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder salt and mint in a bowl. When everything is well mixed add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla extract. Stir this mixture until the bubbles disappear and flour and sugar have melted homogenoeusly. The mixture will look rather liquid, but this is normal.
Pour the cake mixture in a baking-pan (not a large one though) and let it cook for 40/45 minutes. Once the cake is cooked, let it cool down for at least one hour before serving it. This cake goes very well with vegan cream or icecream.