Vegan Chocolate Banana Cake With Avocado Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

100 g chopped almonds
450 g plain flour
300 g caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
375 ml soya milk
200 ml corn oil
4 None bananas, halved lengthways and sliced
100 g vegan dark chocolate, finely chopped
1 None small avocado (about 200g), peeled, stoned and mashed
25 g cocoa powder
25 ml coconut oil

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F. Grease an 8 cup Bundt pan. Heat a frying pan and toast the almonds until golden. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder and baking soda. In a seperate bowl mix the soy milk and oil. Using the whisk of a mixer, gradually beat the liquid mixture into the dry mixture. Stir in the almonds, bananas and chocolate.
Spoon into the pan and smooth out. Bake for 1 hour, until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 45 minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
In a blender, blend the avocado, cocoa powder and 2/3 cup water. Stir in the coconut oil. Drizzle over the cake and allow to cool for 30 minutes.