Easy Vegan Chocolate Cake

[Taterbug160]

I made this for a bridal shower and everyone said it was great! My boyfriend (omni) said he would have never known it was vegan if not for watching me make it. I had a REALLY hard time getting out of the pan though, even after "buttering" and flowering it.

[belize_baby13]

Omg, i made this.  SOOO GOOD!

[Caricar]

Ohhh, so good, I had no idea Vegan cake could be so good!  I made this as a cake and the only snafu I had, was that it stuck pretty good to the cupcake wrappers I used & it seems in our dry climate here in Western Canada you actually want to cook them a few minutes less. But I loved them anyways.  I think I may have even eaten a little bit of the wrappers in my efforts to savour every last morsel...teehee!

[ewwxroflzz]

I made this for my graduation cake. Frosted it with accidentally vegan store-bought vanilla icing which i mixed with crumbled oreos.
So delicious and moist!! 

[3relefords]

This cake is always a hit at my house . Taste even better the next day after sitting in the frig for a while. Super easy to make and tasty, it's hard to eat just one slice. I actually had 3 slices for dinner last night.......I'm shame 

[Serilda]

  Great recipe, but I think its better with "additives" - I put orange zest in mine and it was simply delish!  The only other issue for me was that although I greased and floured the pan, it stuck and my cake broke in half.  Next time I will use parchment paper.  The suggested icing was fabulous too!

[Blonde Veg-head]

I made mini-cupcakes, and they are so moist and DELISH!  Love them!

[Smallie_Biggz]

 
Soooo Tasty.
I used half a lemons juice instead of vinegar, 6tbs of almond milk, 2/4 cups hash oil 1/4 cup olive oil, and finely diced sprig of peppermint from the garden. I used the Chocolate Frosting recipe found on this site..but I added more cocoa than it called for. Baked in muffin tins They turned out soo soft and fluffy!

[vegkittycat]

This was extremely easy to make and came out very moist and chocolately without being too rich.  I made this as 24 cupcakes and baked for 15 minutes.

[amielp]

Great recipe.  Easy to make and non-vegans will love it also.  I've seen this same recipe elsewehere on the net but cut in half. I like these measurements because they make a nice 13x9 size cake.   Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

[geminipeach]

I enjoyed this cake but it was pretty plain and not fluffy like I wanted (but I did make adjustments). I think with the light chocolate flavor (maybe that was just the cocoa I used) it would be complimented very well with a raspberry fruit filling and fresh ones on top of the great chocolate icing recipe by Wally.

I made mine in two round pans and put a small amount of icing in between (which all got absorbed) and on top. I oiled my pans with real coconut oil and they didn't stick at all- in fact they receded from the sides of the pan so it was super easy to get out and they looked great! But again, more like pound cake than fluffy cake.

My adjustments:
- unbleached white flour
- just under 2 cups of sugar (1/4 being succanat & the rest natural cane)
- used baking powder, not soda
- 1/4 cup canola oil, 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 cup water, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk

[nekochan05]

This was ok, but it came out very floury, like chocolate bread, even after I added and extra 2 Tbs of cocoa and about 1/4 of sugar. It would be a great chocolate bread, but it isn't cake. It might turn out better if you cut down on the flour (and water, accordingly). The recommended frosting was really good though.

[Pep]

WOW!!!  I am not even a chocolate cake lover and I am EXCITED about this one!!  This recipe is phenomenal  - no need to ever use another cake recipe.  One review said they'd substituted mint extract for the vanilla, and being a mint-chocolate lover that I am, that's what I did - in both the cake and the frosting! Can you say YUM??  We had guests over last night, 3 vegetarians and 3 omnivores and ALL of them raved about this cake!  Besides subbing the extract, I also used Hershey's 'Special Dark' cocoa powder. I will be making this cake often! I used Wally's frosting recipe as others suggested - delicious.

Oh!  And I baked it the exact time (checking with knife when taking out of oven) and it was perfect!

Thanks for sharing this recipe!  I'd give it 10 stars if I could!

[Tweedle]

the title of this recipe doesn't lie...it's SO easy.  I made it on a whim last night when PMS took over, haha... I was excited by how quickly I could throw all the ingredients together and just shove it in the oven.

I actually split the recipe in half, and made one half exactly the way the recipe calls, and the other half I omitted the cocoa to create a marble cake   I added a few dashes of cinnamon in the batter (and on top of the frosting) because I'm a cinnamon FREAK...

it came out great as a marble!  I used a frosting mix...Pamela's vanilla frosting. (see attached picture)  Normally I wouldn't use a mix, but a friend gave it to me, so why not.

It was seriously SO good... one of the best cakes I've EVER had...
my boyfriend's very anti-vegan friend was shocked and loved it...

[hotcooknmama]

I have a problem... this cake is AWESOME! I'm undoubtedly gonna gain a few hundred pounds now, because I am going to feel compelled to make this chocolate cake, like, every day. I am totally totally serious... I'm in big trouble!  (But quite happily so!) I put peanut butter-chocolate frosting on it... MMMMMMMMMMMMM!
 
Super easy, & incredibly delicious... Thanks for the excellent recipe!