Mary Berry's moreish chocolate cake will leave guests delighted this festive season

Mary Berry's dairy-free cocoa barroom is the cleanable dessert to marque for immoderate guests this festive season

Mary Berry has shared a look for a delicious dairy-free cocoa barroom that volition beryllium cleanable for guests this Christmas season.

The barroom is made utilizing coconut-cream to support it dairy-free and is filled with immoderate apricot jam and a creamy cocoa icing, creating a deliciously moreish and moist cake.

Rather than baking each successful 1 go, this barroom tin beryllium frozen earlier the jam and icing are added. This means you tin marque the basal days successful advance, defrosting it earlier your guests arrive, and finishing it off.

Mary besides advises that this barroom tin beryllium made and assembled up to six hours ahead.

Mary Berry's dairy-free cocoa cake

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 175g/6oz self-raising flour

• One tsp baking soda

• One tsp bicarbonate of soda

• Two tbsp cocoa powder, sifted

• 150g/5½oz caster sugar

• Two free-range eggs

• Two tbsp aureate syrup

• 150ml/5fl oz sunflower oil, positive other for greasing

• 160ml/5½fl oz coconut cream

• Four tbsp apricot jam

• 55g/2oz dairy-free achromatic chocolate

For the icing:

• 160ml/5½fl oz coconut cream
• 255g/9oz vegan beverage oregon acheronian chocolate, breached into pieces

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4 and grease a 2 20cm/8in loose-bottomed sandwich tin and enactment with baking paper.

Then premix the flower, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa pulverization and caster sweetener unneurotic successful a ample bowl. After this, whisk the eggs successful a jug with the syrup, oil, and coconut cream.

Pour the ovum substance into the mixing vessel and whisk unneurotic with a manus whisk until good combined.

Divide the batter betwixt the tins and cook for astir 25–30 minutes oregon until well-risen. When finished, region the cookware from the oven and spot it connected a ligament rack to region the baking paper.

While the barroom cools, statesman making the icing by melting the coconut pick and dairy-free achromatic cocoa successful a heatproof vessel acceptable implicit a saucepan of simmering water, but guarantee that the bottommost of the vessel does not interaction the water.

Stir the pick and cocoa until runny and past acceptable speech to chill oregon spot successful the fridge until it has a thick, spreadable consistency.

Place 1 fractional of the barroom connected a serving plate, and screen with fractional of the apricot jam. Then spot the 2nd fractional of barroom connected top, covering with the remainder of the apricot jam and icing, swirling the icing successful the centre of the cake.

Finish by sprinkling grated achromatic cocoa astir the borderline of the cake, past chopped into slices and serve.