Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Vegan chocolate cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegan chocolate cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
This classic vegan chocolate cake is the bomb diggity! Not only is it super easy to make, but I'm actually convinced it is flop proof! You're going to love the simplicity of the ingredients and how well.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegan chocolate cake using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan chocolate cake:
- Make ready Cake
- Take 240 ml plant based milk
- Make ready 15 ml white vinegar
- Take 240 g all purpose flour
- Make ready 315 g white sugar
- Take 100 g cacao powder
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 240 ml unsweetened applesauce
- Make ready 120 ml freshly brewed espresso
- Take 120 ml coconut oil, melted
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take Frosting
- Take 112 g unsalted plant-based butter, softened
- Get 25 g cacao powder
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 120 g powdered sugar
- Make ready 60 ml unsweetened plant-based milk
- Take 60 ml dairy-free dark chocolate, melted
- Make ready Decorations
- Make ready strawberries, blueberries, raspberries
- Take leaves mint
- Make ready nuts
This easy to make gluten free chocolate cake might become your new favorite dessert because it's fudgy, moist, rich, and so chocolaty! Here is my take on Vegan Chocolate Cake and this according to me is the best vegan cake recipe you'll ever need. Its rich, moist, chocolaty and super. This vegan chocolate cake recipe ticks all the right boxes.
Steps to make Vegan chocolate cake:
- 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.
All you do to make this simple vegan chocolate cake frosting is melt together coconut milk and vegan dark chocolate pieces. While the cakes cool prepare the frosting. Add vegan butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and. This is the same chocolate cake I showed in my recent course for how to replace eggs in your vegan recipes. If you are interested to learn more about the science of vegan baking just click here to check.
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