Wow your friends with these delicious cherry chocolate slices

Getting together to share pre-made Mitthai

With Divali and New Year coming up, I had an excuse to explore making vegan Mitthai!

'Indian' sweets are made and shared during this festivity, but they often contain non-vegan ingredients, such as, ghee, butter or condensed milk.

The thing is...I'm not used to being vegan and missing out! So, with that in mind; I arranged for some like-minded folk to get together and share the results of their experiments with making vegan Mitthai.

I'll tell you more about the event in another post.

Rena used this recipe to make cherry chocolates slices which were delicious. We enjoyed them on their own, but they may also taste good with some vegan vanilla ice-cream too! 

This recipe makes between 36 and 50 slices, depending on how one cuts them. 

Ingredients for vegan cherry chocolate slice base 

• 175g/6oz of plain flour

• 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

• 100g/3½oz of caster sugar

• ½ teaspoon of baking powder

• 100g/3½oz of Stork Original Baking Block

• 50-75ml/2-3floz of non-dairy milk - in this instance sweetened soya milk was used 

Ingredients for vegan cherry chocolate slice topping 

• 500g/1lb 2oz of chopped glacé cherries

• 125ml/4floz of Agave Syrup

• 150g/5oz of desiccated coconut

• 1 vanilla pod - split lengthways, seeds scraped out

• 1 lime - zest only

• 110g/4oz of vegan chocolate - in this instance 74% cocoa Ivory Coast Plain Chocolate was used 

How to make vegan cherry chocolate slices

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4

2. Grease and line a 20cm/8in square cake tin

3. Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together

4. Rub the Stork in to the dry ingredients until breadcrumbs form

5. Add the milk and mix until smooth

6. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until pale golden-brown on top

7. Remove and set aside to cool

8. Mix the cherries, Agave Syrup, coconut, vanilla and lime zest in a bowl until well combined

9. Spoon the cherry mixture onto the chocolate base and bake in the oven for a further 20 minutes

10. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool

11. Drizzle the melted chocolate over the surface and chill in the fridge for one hour, or until set

12. Cut into squares and serve

Adapted from a BBC recipe

Related posts

Recipe for Date and Nut Slices
Recipe for Pista Barfi 
Recipe for Maava Na Penda

Did you like this recipe? Want to read others like it? Click here to sign up to Plant Shift's monthly newsletter.