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For National Chocolate Cake Day

Let me just start this by saying, I AM NOT A BAKER haha, but I can follow directions very well & I have a good sense of what I can & can’t tweak. So… I found an easy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe for National Chocolate Cake Day and I tweaked it slightly.

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Before I begin, do you know what I always find funny about food blogs or recipe posts? The long a*s freaken introductions! Especially when it’s just a simple vegan chocolate cake recipe haha. What’s up with that?

Now, I’m not judging ‘cause obviously people like them or that wouldn’t be the on-going trend right? But for me, I’m always just quickly scrolling past the long intros & photos and straight down to the good stuff. I’m always asking the site, …

But how do I make this thing?

The original recipe author comes from Nora Taylor at Nora Cooks.
National Chocolate Cake Day – Easy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe
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National Chocolate Cake Day – Easy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe

Recipe by KeirstenCourse: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

16

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

35

minutes
Calories

496

kcal
Total time

1

hour 

10

minutes

As mentioned, I am not a baker so I needed an easy recipe I could tweak & make my own.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Oat Milk

  • 1 TBS. Apple Cider Vinegar

  • 2 C. All-Purpose Flour (I used Bob’s Red Mill)

  • 1 3/4 C. Stevia or Sugar (Depends on your sweet tooth. I find the icing sweet enough.)

  • 3/4 C. Cocoa Powder

  • 2 tsp. Baking Powder

  • 1 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda

  • 1 tsp. Salt

  • 1/2 C. Avocado Oil (Baking oil of choice)

  • 2/3 C. Unsweetened Applesauce

  • 1 TBS. Pure Vanilla Extract

  • 1 C. Boiling Water

  • Icing

  • To make this real simple, I used Betty Crocker’s Creamy Deluxe Chocolate Icing. Majority of Betty Crocker Icing’s are accidentally vegan, so yay! I found 1 tub to be enough but if you want to lay it on thick, then get 2.

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and grease two 9-inch cake pans (I used round/low profile pans).
  • In a separate bowl, add the oat milk and the apple cider vinegar. Stir lightly & set aside to curdle.
  • In a larger bowl, add the dry goods (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt). Whisk well to combine.
  • Next add the wet stuff (oil, applesauce, vanilla and almond milk/vinegar mixture). Mix on medium speed with a hand mixer or a regular whisk works well too, until well combined. 
  • Carefully start to pour in the boiling water. Lowering your hand mixture speed. Keep mixing & adding all of the water a little at a time. It will start to be quite runny but that’s how we want it.
  • Divide the batter into your 2 cake pans. Bake for 35 mins & then use a toothpick to check the centre. If it needs a little more time do 5 min intervals, you don’t want to burn the outside layer. If the toothpick comes out clean we’re good to go!
  • Let the cakes cool before removing them from their pans. Once fully cooled, you can ice your cake. Place a nice layer in the centre, then add the top layer, then ice the sides & the top. Voila! Super simple right?

Recipe Video

Notes

  • Coming from a nonbaker, this recipe was really easy to make. All in all it took maybe 10 – 15 mins to prepare, 35 mins to bake, an hour or so to cool, & then maybe 10 mins to put on the icing.
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The results, I thought it tasted super yummy! It was moist and sweet. I think next time I’d do half stevia & half sugar though. I thought the icing was sweet enough for myself but I know most people expect cake to be sweet haha, so that’s just a tip I learned from this.

Let me know if you try this recipe or if you have your own easy vegan chocolate cake recipe too. I’d love to try them out. If I get into baking, maybe I’ll finally have an excuse to buy one of those beautiful Kitchen Aide Mixers.

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There you have it, a super easy vegan chocolate cake recipe for National Chocolate Cake Day. It’s not hard to veganize our go-to dishes & help make day to day life more cruelty-free. By not using ingredients such as eggs or milk, we’re not contributing to the cruel & inhumane practices that go on in dairy & egg farms. So thank you for that conscious effort. The animals, the planet, and your body thanks you! <3

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