Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vegan chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegan chocolate cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Vegan chocolate cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan chocolate cake using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan chocolate cake:

1. Make ready Cake
2. Take 240 ml plant based milk
3. Get 15 ml white vinegar
4. Prepare 240 g all purpose flour
5. Prepare 315 g white sugar
6. Get 100 g cacao powder
7. Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
8. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
9. Get 1/2 tsp salt
10. Make ready 240 ml unsweetened applesauce
11. Get 120 ml freshly brewed espresso
12. Take 120 ml coconut oil, melted
13. Prepare 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
14. Take Frosting
15. Prepare 112 g unsalted plant-based butter, softened
16. Take 25 g cacao powder
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
18. Make ready 120 g powdered sugar
19. Make ready 60 ml unsweetened plant-based milk
20. Take 60 ml dairy-free dark chocolate, melted
21. Prepare Decorations
22. Make ready strawberries, blueberries, raspberries
23. Make ready leaves mint
24. Make ready nuts

Very simply, dairy-free versions of regular cake ingredients. Vegan butter is subbed for dairy butter, and a combo of oil, dairy-free milk, and apple cider vinegar replace the eggs. This vegan chocolate cake is rich, fluffy and moist. Perfect for birthdays, carving cakes and it stores well due to its great texture.

Steps to make Vegan chocolate cake:

1. To a medium bowl, add the milk and vinegar, and give it a mix. You will see it starts to curdle, by doing this we are creating a vegan buttermilk.
2. Place a sieve over a large bowl, sift all the dry ingredients through it. Mix together. - To the same large bowl, add the buttermilk and all wet ingredients. Mix until there are no lumps left, but make sure to not over mix.
3. Grease a (20 cm) round cake pan with oil and line the bottom with a cut-out round piece of parchment paper. - Put in the cake batter and bake in the oven for 30 - 35 minutes at 180°C.
4. Meanwhile, make the frosting. To a large bowl, add the butter, sift in the cacao powder, and add the vanilla, and mix with an electric or hand mixer until smooth and creamy. - Alternate between adding sifted powdered sugar and plant-based milk to the bowl, until well combined. - Using a spatula, fold in the melted chocolate, make sure to let it cool off a little bit before adding.
5. Once your cake is done baking, let it cool off for 10 minutes in the cake pan before transferring to a cooling rack to let it cool off completely. - If you like, you can level your cake with a serrated knife to create a flat surface for stacking the cakes on top of each other.
6. Using a spatula or butter knife, spread out a thick layer of frosting on one of the cakes. - Place the second cake on top and frost with the leftover frosting, you can even create a pattern if you like. - Decorate the chocolate cake with berries of your choice and some mint leaves, and enjoy!
7. Notes - Storage: best if enjoyed immediately. The cake can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days. - Variations: top the cake with any fruits of your choice, or add some nuts for example.

It's not heavy or dense like a traditional chocolate mud cake or dry like an overbaked sponge. It's in between like a butter cake. Here are a few baking tips for this vegan chocolate cake: A classic chocolate sponge cake. This is really a classic vegan chocolate cake in the sense that it's light and fluffy and…well, spongey! It's also rich, tall (two layers), dark and pretty damn handsome too!

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