Mosaic Vegan Chocolate Cake with Ganache

Preserved for posterity with pictures to follow, the Mosaic Vegan Chocolate Cake:

Mosaic Vegan Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
3 cups flour
1 cup oil (canola or vegetable)
2/3 cup cocoa
2 cups water
2 tsp baking soda
4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 cups sugar
Directons
1) Prepare bundt pan with a small amount of flour and margarine so the cake won't stick
2) Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt & sugar into dry mixing bowl
3) Separately mix oil, water and vanilla in wet mixing bowl
4) Mix wet into dry with a mixer
5) When the batter is smooth add the vinegar
6) Pour into a bundt pan and bake for 30 minutes at 375 fahrenheit.  If you have a thicker pan it might take a bit longer.  Keep checking with a toothpick until it can come out clean.

Chocolate Ganache (makes 4 cups)
Ingredients
1 pound non-dairy dark chocolate (approximately 2 & 1/2 cups)
2 cups soy milk
Directions
1) Melt chocolate in double boiler over barely simmering water
2) Pour soy milk into blender, then pour in chocolate and puree until smooth
Ganache stays good for 1 week.

Don't forget to chill the ganache so it isn't quite so runny.  The pictures below use hot ganache (because I didn't care to wait).  If you don't want to have ganache as runny you could use less soy milk.  Also, I used vanilla soy milk in mine, but choose what you like.

Just out of the oven

Right-side up now

Melting the chocolate

Pouring some ganache over the cake

The finished product.  Extra ganache on each slice is best.

Sketch dump #???

I've lost track already.

Anyway, it's great to have some stuff to post again!  I've been busy with work for the past few months and it's been really hard to get around to this.  There's going to be a lot of pictures, so I'll give you something to listen to to start off.  Montreal's Le Matos!  I like these guys, an interesting take on retro that blends old movies with some modern Justice-esque kind of stuff.  You might want to start it right away, this might take awhile.

I won't waste your time with extra words, so here are some pictures:

I drew this one for a friend who likes D&D and stuff like that, so he's a necromancer guy or something with a pet rat, a zombie and a creepy butler.  I liked it.

This is another one I did of (supposedly) Hanuman and Ravana, with Hanuman's tail on fire from when he went to rescue Sita and all that stuff.  I was told it looks like a Chimchar.

Some characters from my comic, including Decker and Jang and Nora and Jean-Luc and Eva.  I'm hoping to have the first strip up here this week.  Let's see if that actually happens.

Here's a bunch of cartoon animals.  I like the dog at the top left and the mouse the most.

Here's a bunch of nonsense scribbles.  I like Godzilla the most.

This depicts an undersea "awkward situation".

My friend let me use his brush pen so I drew a bunch of stuff with it.  I was all like: "Oh!  A PEN!"...it was all very exciting, since I usually only use pencil crayons.

Not so fond of this page, but I thought the hippie was kind of fun.  At this blog I give you the good and the bad...or at least just subject you to the bad, anyway.

I saw the new Batman movie, so I thought I should do some super heroes.  I don't really know what they look like very well.  At the bottom I drew a guy who was very mad at a photocopier.

This is an adult and a kid with various devices for heads.  It kind of reminds me of an old MTV ad or something.

I like the snail in this one.  The fat guy with goggles also looks kinda neat.

Here's a fish and an alien and an old guy and some junk.

I really liked this duck.  Not too shabby.

Some more random junk.  I found some other colours of pencil crayons and coloured this pigeon.  I'm not sure why its beak is curved like a parrot, but whatever.

Another odd page, but I liked the cat with goggles at the top.

Here's a comic.  It doesn't make much sense but it made me laugh.

One more comic.  This makes less sense, but I think the last panel is golden.

Well, that's it for now.  I'm hoping to have a comic up by the end of the week, but we'll see.  It's nice to be drawing again though!