Vegan chocolate cake. This really is the best chocolate cake ever, vegan or otherwise. A simple vegan chocolate cake, made with basic ingredients and perfect for any occasion. Four years ago this month, John and I were just kids planning our wedding.
While the cakes cool prepare the frosting. Add vegan butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla. This vegan chocolate cake is fudgy, super moist, ultra chocolaty and is topped off with an easy whipped chocolate ganache frosting! You can have Vegan chocolate cake using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Vegan chocolate cake
- You need of Cake.
- Prepare 240 ml of plant based milk.
- Prepare 15 ml of white vinegar.
- Prepare 240 g of all purpose flour.
- It’s 315 g of white sugar.
- You need 100 g of cacao powder.
- You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 240 ml of unsweetened applesauce.
- You need 120 ml of freshly brewed espresso.
- It’s 120 ml of coconut oil, melted.
- It’s 1/2 tbsp of vanilla extract.
- It’s of Frosting.
- You need 112 g of unsalted plant-based butter, softened.
- You need 25 g of cacao powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 120 g of powdered sugar.
- It’s 60 ml of unsweetened plant-based milk.
- Prepare 60 ml of dairy-free dark chocolate, melted.
- You need of Decorations.
- It’s of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries.
- You need leaves of mint.
- It’s of nuts.
Can be made gluten-free, whole wheat or with all-purpose flour. This may be the healthiest cake I've made, but you'd never know it by eating it. It's perfectly moist with a rich dark chocolate flavor that's made even richer with a thick. This BEST vegan chocolate cake recipe is quick and easy with no unusual ingredients.
Vegan chocolate cake step by step
- To a medium bowl, add the milk and vinegar, and give it a mix. You will see it starts to curdle, by doing this we are creating a vegan buttermilk..
- Place a sieve over a large bowl, sift all the dry ingredients through it. Mix together. To the same large bowl, add the buttermilk and all wet ingredients. Mix until there are no lumps left, but make sure to not over mix..
- Grease a (20 cm) round cake pan with oil and line the bottom with a cut-out round piece of parchment paper. Put in the cake batter and bake in the oven for 30 – 35 minutes at 180°C..
- Meanwhile, make the frosting. To a large bowl, add the butter, sift in the cacao powder, and add the vanilla, and mix with an electric or hand mixer until smooth and creamy. Alternate between adding sifted powdered sugar and plant-based milk to the bowl, until well combined. Using a spatula, fold in the melted chocolate, make sure to let it cool off a little bit before adding..
- Once your cake is done baking, let it cool off for 10 minutes in the cake pan before transferring to a cooling rack to let it cool off completely. If you like, you can level your cake with a serrated knife to create a flat surface for stacking the cakes on top of each other..
- Using a spatula or butter knife, spread out a thick layer of frosting on one of the cakes. Place the second cake on top and frost with the leftover frosting, you can even create a pattern if you like. Decorate the chocolate cake with berries of your choice and some mint leaves, and enjoy!.
- Notes Storage: best if enjoyed immediately. The cake can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days. Variations: top the cake with any fruits of your choice, or add some nuts for example..
Hundreds of readers have loved this moist fluffy vegan chocolate cake. Ok so I found this Vegan Chocolate Cake recipe and it was a HUGE hit with my family and friends. It was quite easy to make as well! Now, you might think a vegan chocolate cake recipe will be difficult to master. There's no egg to hold things together and to give the cake it's lift, no gluten to prevent the cake from going crumbly.
