Christmas Log Cake [Vegan] – One Green Planet

To Make the Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine the soy milk and vinegar collectively and let it curdle for a couple of minutes. Then add oil, sugar, and extracts. Stir to mix. Then sift in flour, powder, leaveners, and salt.
3. Bake 2 desserts on cookie sheets lined with parchment. Use one massive dimension (11×17-inch) and one medium (9×12-inch), pouring the cake roughly 1/2-inch thick when uncooked.
4. Cook dinner at 350°F for about quarter-hour and cooled fully on the rack earlier than frosting.

To Make the Mocha Coconut Cream Filling:

1. Whip the coconut fats (do not use the water within the can; put it aside for a smoothie or curry), sugar, and extract on excessive pace till you’ve got the specified consistency (roughly 5 minutes).
2. Lay out a layer about 1/2-inch thick over each layers to the cake. Then (that is the crux) roll every cake up onto its self, utilizing the parchment to help you. As soon as it is rolled and tight-ish (suppose tightening a nori roll with a mat), lay each seam sides down. Refrigerate to assist agency issues up.

To Make the Chocolate Ganache:

1. Microwave the chips and milk in a glass bowl on 75% energy for about 4 minutes or till the chocolate is totally melted. Stir properly earlier than frosting. Take the smaller of the 2 desserts and minimize it in half at a forty five diploma angle, beveled a bit in on the backside.
2. Connect certainly one of these sections to the facet as a separate department of the cake. The remaining half of the smaller cake it’s possible you’ll use to style check or vogue one other department like within the image. Then unfold the ganache over the complete log, paying particular consideration to the joint(s). Garnish with recent flowers or no matter you’ve got available.