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Recipe submitted by jenufleck, 06/17/05

Awesome Chocolate Cake

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

    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 cups cool water
    2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.

2. Mix the dry ingredients together in large mixing bowl.  With a spoon, make three indentations in dry mixture; 1 small, 1 medium, and 1 large.

3.  Pour oil into large indentation, vinegar into medium, and vanilla into small.

4. Add the water and mix (do not over beat).

5. 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 one bundt cake.  The bunt 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.


I have a recipe similar to this and I find a flour-blend seems to work well.  Spelt, oat or whole wheat flours diluted with unbleached white is pretty good.  Instant coffee powder also works well with/instead of the vanilla.

Archived comment by: jonil
might i suggest organic apple cider vinegar to replace the white vinegar, it works awesome and is bit better for you. i use all organic ingredients and make an awesome rich chocolate frosting with tofu to top it off.

Archived comment by: orangegurl
Yep, this is a delicious cake, worthy of praise. The kind of cake that makes non-vegans say, this is vegan? Yum.

Archived comment by: grantsmom
the recipe sounds amazing. im a beginner at baking cakes so i would like a favour from any1 who would like 2 help on clearing some doubts of mine.... y r the 3 different portions made n finally  how is it 2 be placed?

Archived comment by: roma_kd
i made this cake for my boyfriends birthday last week, and...wow. i made two layers and used raspberry jam between the layers, then made chocolate buttercream frosting (http://vegweb.com/recipes/sweets/4806.shtml) and placed fresh raspberries on top. awesome.

Archived comment by: withthisfire
this cake totally rocks! i made it for two friends of mine. One was a vegan(and has been for four years) and the other is a non-vegetarian. They both loved it and said it was one of the best chocolate cakes they have ever had! I have to agree. I used the Buttercream Frosting recipie and added 1/4 of a cup extra cocoa powder and powdered sugar. The cake was picture pefect after i sprinkled extra powdered sugar on top and added fresh fruit toppig. I used fresh peaches, but i tried it wit some spare blackberries i had in the fridge. EXCELLENT!

Archived comment by: v_e_g_g_i_e
This cake was awesome! I used soymilk instead of water and I like tripled the chocolate cuz you can just never have enough...lol. It turned out perfect! Two words...got(soy)milk?

Archived comment by: ticTac038
I have made this cake twice now, once as a cake and once as cupcakes, vegans and meat eaters alike LOVED it!!!  It is great out of the fridge and freezes well too!

Archived comment by: beccap72
I tried this recipe for my boyfriends birthda and it turned out great.  I followed the recipe exactly except for substituing the water with milk.  We both just loved it.

Archived comment by: rS
I just made this for my daughters birthday, I made a double layer which I sandwiched together with a chocolate tofu cream (silken tofu, cocoa powder and icing sugar blended together) and then covered it with Sarahs chocolate frosting - AWESOME! My kids have said forget it being like a Mississippi Mud Cake, they call it the Mississippi Delta (*G*)! This was a HUGE hit with the diehard carnivores at the birthday too, none of them could believe its vegan Smiley Now they don't think I'm such a freak LOL, they all wanted the recipe Wink

Archived comment by: windwolf
Windwolf: Can you give the proportions for the cream? It sounds great.

Archived comment by: vegan1
This cake was amazing! i tried it with a sugar substitute and milk instead of water, but it turned out perfect!!

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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2006, 09:09:25 PM »

I also used soymilk instead of water and applesauce instead of oil. This cake is awesome!
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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2007, 03:35:24 PM »

I halved this recipe for a 12-cupcake batch, replaced half the water with cold-brewed coffee,  used apple cider vinegar instead on white vinegar, and frosted the tops of the cupcakes with vegan chocolate buttercream frosting - mercy, but it was delectable. The cake is moist, perfectly sweet... worthy of front place in my vegan desserts index file.

"Awesome Chocolate Cake" indeed. Finally, a recipe that truly lives up to its namesake. Thanks for sharing!
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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2007, 11:24:03 PM »

This cake is the same as the Super Moist Chocolate Cake http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6686, just with twice the ingredients. It has 7 pages of comments so if you've got any questions, you may want to look it up.
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2007, 12:16:25 AM »

Wow! Your cake looks like a masterpiece!  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2007, 02:18:20 AM »

 the photo by andylievertz makes me want to make this right now. Beautiful!
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2007, 08:48:52 AM »

the photo by andylievertz makes me want to make this right now. Beautiful!

No joke. Every time I see that picture, I want to eat the screen. I might reward myself with this cake after I finish my term paper... *drool*
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2007, 10:38:55 AM »

I've spent five years trying to find a cake recipe for my food-allergic daughter to have birthday cakes.  Everything I've tried makes something rubbery, spongy, unattractive, or doesn't taste very good.  We'd decorate it so we had something for the birthday and throw away what was left after three days.

This recipe makes CAKE.  It hits in all three categories: appearance, texture, flavor.  I made it as cupcakes, paired it with 'Vegan Chocolate Frosting' from this site.  My husband ate two before dinner and another for dessert.  He ate one before bed, and suggested that this particular recipe become my standard offering for pot-lucks.  I'm sure I won't be throwing anything out...and fairly sure these won't last three days.

This cake will satisfy vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2007, 02:37:59 AM »

I like the idea of using coffee insted of water. There is nothing better than coffee and chocolate.
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« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2007, 10:02:58 AM »

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 Smiley

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.
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« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2008, 03:05:27 PM »

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!
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