Recipe
Vegan Chocolate Cake
This is the BEST vegan chocolate cake recipe - it's easy to make and the result is so moist, rich, and chocolate flavored.
Ingredient batch: 2× original. Base yield: 8.
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- Yield
- 16
- Prep
- 10 minutes
- Cook
- 40 minutes
- Total
- 110 minutes
- Cooling Time
- 60 minutes
Ingredients
Vegan Chocolate Cake
- 355 mL cake flour (volume measure)
- 158 mL cocoa powder (volume measure)
- 9.9 mL baking soda (volume measure)
- 4.9 mL salt (volume measure)
- 315 mL hot coffee can sub hot water (volume measure)
- 315 mL maple syrup (volume measure)
- 118 mL vegetable oil (volume measure)
- 9.9 mL apple cider vinegar (volume measure)
Vegan Whipped Chocolate Frosting
- 237 mL coconut oil melted and cooled (volume measure)
- 4.9 mL vanilla extract (volume measure)
- 473 mL powdered sugar (volume measure)
- 158 mL cocoa powder (volume measure)
- 30–39 mL plant based milk (volume measure)
Base draft — original amounts
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- 3/4 cup cake flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cups hot coffee can sub hot water
- 2/3 cups maple syrup
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup coconut oil melted and cooled
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3-4 tsp plant based milk
Instructions
For The Chocolate Cake
- Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Prepare the pan by lining it with parchment paper or greasing and flouring it (with coconut oil, cooking spray or vegan butter).
- Add the dry ingredients to a bowl, and mix to combine well. Add in the wet ingredients, then stir until just combined. This cake batter will seem very wet, this is normal.
- Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan. Bake for ~40 minutes **see cook times below to see how long to bake depending on the size and shape of your pan** Allow to cool for about 1-2 hours before cutting or frosting.
For The Whipped Chocolate Frosting
- Melt the coconut oil in the microwave for 1 minute, then stir in any leftover solid chunks. Chill in the freezer for 15-20 minutes until partially solidified.
- Add coconut oil to a mixing bowl and beat with a hand mixer until smooth & creamy. Add in the vanilla extract and mix until completely combined.
- Mix in the cocoa powder, then mix in the powdered sugar.
- If frosting is too lumpy you can push it through a wire sieve.
- Once you have a very thick frosting, mix in the plant based milk 1 Tablespoon at a time, allowing it to become completely incorporated. The end result will be fluffy whipped frosting.
Notes
Cooking size & time adjustments: 7" cake - bake for 40 minutes. Cupcakes - double the recipe and bake 25 minutes for 24 cupcakes. 9"x13" sheet cake - double the recipe and bake for 35-40 minutes. 2 9" round cakes - double the recipe and bake for 30-35 minutes. Bundt cake - double the recipe and bake for 50-60 minutes at 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Substitutions: To make a sugar-free chocolate cake, replace the sugar with an artificial syrup sweetener such as allulose sweetener . For the frosting you can replace powdered sugar with Swerve confectioner's sweetener to make it sugar-free. To make this cake gluten-free, replace the cake flour with a gluten-free flour replacement such as King Arthur Measure For Measure Gluten Free Flour (recommended). Maple syrup can be replaced with another sweet syrup such as Karo corn syrup , agave syrup , or allulose sweetener .
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