Blog 6: A Better Self 

Looking for a way to adopt a healthy eating choice and still enjoy something special. I decided to make a vegan chocolate cake, that can satisfies my sweet tooth and be nourishing. My vision was to renovate the beloved chocolate cake recipe by doing a plant-based variation. often times I don't reach for a vegan options but this week challenged me to step out of my comfort zone but still make something delicious. 

In my effort to make the tastiest vegan chocolate cake, I decided to not use the term "Healthy" while I was searching. I wanted to start with a delicious "unhealthy" cake to start then make some substitutions. In this recipe I used applesauce as the eggs for the cake, and instead of frosting it, I used a light dusting of powdered surgar ontop. Although this may have seemed like an unhealthy option, I still thought it was better than smothering a mixture of butter and sugar (frosting) across all sides. 

Although it was a challeneg for me to forget about all my usual fatty baking ingreidents. It was a good reminder than you can still enjoy sweet treats even while trying to be healtheir. This vegan chocolate cake is a proof to the fact that taking pleasure and care of ourselves are not contradicting one another. We can even form nicer complement between delightfulness to our body and soul.