Spicy Vegan Chocolate Cake

(adapted from this one)

Materials:

Dry

* 1 3/4 cup white flour
* 2 tsp bp
* 2 tsp soda
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 tsp cinnamon
* 2 tsp chili powder (or cayenne)
* 1 cup cocoa, sifted
* 1/3 cup sugar (or sugar replacement – experimental run was with Simply Sweet)
* pinch of nutmeg (optional)

Wet

* 1/2 cup oil (canola)
* 1 cup maple syrup
* 1 cup milk (soy, rice) (plain, or if vanilla, halve the vanilla)
* 1 cup coffee, warm or cold, not hot
* 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
* large dash, vanilla
* nontrivial dash, almond
* hazelnuts (optional)

Methods:

1. Stir dry ingredients together in large bowl.
2. Stir wet ingredients in a well in the dry ingredients.
3. Mix everything together. Batter is highly liquid.
4. Bake at 350 until done, rotate every 15 min.