Best Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe
The quickest, easiest and most delicious vegan chocolate cake recipe
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Equipment
- 1 9" Cake tin lightly oiled and lined on the bottom
Ingredients
- 1 cup Plain Flour
- ¼ cup Cacao Powder - or use cocoa powder, very dark
- ¼ cup Caster Sugar - extra fine sugar, or, I used maple sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- ¼ cup Vegetable Oil - or melted vegan butter or coconut oil
- ½ cup Maple Syrup
- ¾ cup Milk - any dairy-free of your choice
- 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar - or lemon juice
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180c.
- Sour the milk in a large jug by adding the vinegar or lemon juice. Leave to stand for 5 minutes.
- Whilst the milk is souring, sift together the flour, cacao powder, baking powder and bicarb into a large mixing bowl.
- Whisk the sugar and salt into the flour mix.
- Now add the oil, vanilla and maple syrup to the milk and whisk well.
- Pour this into the dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined. Don't overmix though.
- Pour into your prepared baking tin and bake for 30-35 minutes or until it springs back to the touch.
- Leave to cool 10 minutes in the tin before carefully turning out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Now you can frost your cake.
Please note that where the recipe asks for milk, butter or yogurt, this refers to any plant-based version that you prefer.