Awesome Chocolate Cake
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups natural sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups cool water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt) together in large mixing bowl. With a spoon, make three indentations in dry mixture; 1 small, 1 medium, and 1 large.
2. Pour oil into large indentation, vinegar into medium, and vanilla into small. Add the water and mix (do not over beat).
2. Bake for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and come out clean. You will want to adjust the cook time depending upon the baking pan you are using.
This recipe will yield two 9 layers, 24 cupcakes, or 1 bundt cake. The bundt cake took about an hour to bake. Just be sure to keep an eye on your cake.
This is truly the most awesome cake I have made. I baked cupcakes for my classroom using this recipe, and they loved it! Also, I tried this recipe with whole wheat flour--not so great. I would recommend sticking to all purpose flour.'
SO HOW'D IT GO?
Made it into a cake with coconut frosting and toasted coconut on top for my mom for mother's day! Caked turned out a little dry, however, it was still good!
Here are my cake balls now that the chocolate has hardened on the outside. I was really upset that I wouldn't get to serve the cake by itself, but now that these are made up and cute-looking I'm feeling much better about the whole ordeal. :) I really want to try this recipe again sometime without murdering my cake after it bakes.
The cake, only minutes after its perfectly-baked glory:
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How I salvaged the pieces:
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I used a bundt pan, and it looked and smelled perfect. But then I turned it out, and it fell into a crumbly mess. I still think I might cry. It tastes delicious. :'( I'm going to roll up the aftermath into cake balls (mixing with store-bought icing and rolling into balls, rolling the balls in chocolate coating...). I'm really sad that I can't just serve the cake itself, because it would've been perfect. But now I know--it has to cool much longer than 10 minutes before I can turn it out of the pan. And maybe I didn't grease the pan enough. :'(
I made this cake for my omni husband's birthday yesterday. He still has no clue it's vegan and has been wolfing it down gleefully. SO GOOD! I've made a lot of different vegan cakes- this is the best one I've tried so far! ;)b
Amazing cake!! added in a lb of fresh cherries, put frosting and jam in between layers, a great spongy (not like a brick like other vegan cakes) cake!!
I used my variation on this cake for my friends halloween wedding! I just thought I should say how fricken delicious it is, sooo much better than i remember non-veg chocolate cake to be. I also make mine with gluten free flours and smile :)
I made this cake yesterday and replaced some of the oil with shredded zucchini; I also added more cocoa powder. Yesterday, the cake tasted really bland and gross, but after being in the refrigerator overnight with some DELICIOUS vegan frosting, it magically turned delicious :) I would recommend adding some melted chocolate to the batter in addition to the cocoa powder. The cake was reeeeally moist the next day- such a great texture!
*** This is the fudgiest, most delicious chocolate frosting I have ever tasted:
http://www.grouprecipes.com/1834/vegan-chocolate-frosting.html
I also added some coconut extract to the frosting... yummmmmm :)>>>
This made awesome cupcakes. I halved it and it was perfect for 12 cupcakes. I baked the them for about 20 mins and might try a little less next time. Great flavor and very easy!
This was spifferific! Following a few of the comments so far, I replaced the water with soymilk, and the white vinegar with apple cider vinegar. My only other modification was to add about half a teaspoon of almond extract...not necessarily because the cake needed it, but mostly because I just add almond extract to practically everything :)
I used two 9" round pans and layered strawberry preserves between the two layers, then frosted the whole thing with vanilla frosting. It made a really dense cake (I think it didn't bake quite long enough, because I forgot what time I put it in the oven and I was impatient haha) but it is sooo moist and chocolatey I think I'll probably eat the whole thing before anyone else gets to try it. Thanks a bunch for the recipe.
I like the idea of using coffee insted of water. There is nothing better than coffee and chocolate.
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