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This vegan cake is super moist and super chocolatey, so be prepared for bliss. You'll have leftover cake and icing.

Special Dark Chocolate Cake [Vegan]

Serves

2

What Ingredients Do You Need To Make Special Dark Chocolate Cake [Vegan]

Cake
  • 3/4 cup vegan milk
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3/4 cup cane sugar/brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup veg oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat/oat/almond flour
  • 3/4 cup cocoa/cacao
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp cayenne
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • A wee bit of agave/maple syrup, if desired
Frosting
  • 1/4 cup tofu
  • 1/2 cup cashew butter
  • 1/3 cup raw powdered sugar
  • 1/4 veg oil/vegan butter
  • 1/2 cup non-dairy milk
  • Vanilla seeds from 1 pod
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup agave/maple syrup
  • 1/8-1/4 cup booze (I used maple whiskey)
  • 1/2 bar melted dark chocolate
  • 1/3 cup cocoa

How To Make Special Dark Chocolate Cake [Vegan]

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. To make the cake, mix ingredients from first list together and let sit for 5 minutes.
  3. Sift in the rest of the ingredients and stir until smooth. Taste it to make sure it's to your liking.
  4. Pour evenly into two 9 inch cake pans lined with foil.
  5. The batter should be pretty shallow in both; that's because you're going to be making 4 layers.
  6. Bake for about 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. While they're baking, make the icing. Blend all the ingredients together until smooth. Set aside.
  8. When done baking, let the cakes sit out in the pans for 10 minutes. Then take them out and use a giant cookie cutter (big circle) to cut out 4 cake circles - 2 from each cake.
  9. Put the bottom layer onto something you can easily transfer it with later. Then frost each layer and finally the top and sides. Hurraw!


About The Author

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Emily von Euw

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Emily von Euw is the creator of the award-winning recipe blog, This Rawsome Vegan Life, and the best-selling author of four cookbooks: Rawsome Vegan Baking; 100 Best Juices, Smoothies and Healthy Snacks; The Rawsome Vegan Cookbook; and Rawsome Superfoods. Em’s passion in life comes from friendships, food, wilderness, mindfulness, art, and lots of dark chocolate. They have presented at expos and festivals across Canada and the US, and their work has been featured in publications around the world. Em lives in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional and unceded territories of the First Nations.

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