Vegan Chocolate Cake
My husband’s team has a pot-luck lunch party at his workplace today and I sent in 4 items to add to their yummy and diverse menu. Here’s what I sent in – Vegan Chocolate Cake, Rich Chocolate Cake (with egg), Spinach-Corn Bake and Dahi paav (Bread dahi-vada).
This cake turned out really well. If you havent yet baked a chocolate cake because you or your family wont eat egg or any milk products, this recipe is just perfect for you! It is a must-try. It turns out really moist, soft and fluffy despite no eggs…baffles me how! Well, I’m not gonna waste time thinking about how the recipe works… I’m off now for a bite of this sinful cake!
The other recipes will follow…
Shubs, I’m dedicating this post to you 
Ingredients:
- All purpose flour (or Maida) – 1 1/2 cups
- Unsweetened Cocoa powder – 1 cup (if your cocoa powder is very strong, use 1/2 to 3/4th cup)
- Castor Sugar (or regular sugar, powdered) – 1 cup
- Instant Coffee powder – 2 tsps
- Baking Soda – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Cooking oil – 1/2 cup (I used Rice Bran)
- Water (warm) – 1 cup
- White Vinegar (distilled) – 1 tbsp (or) 3 tsps
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Walnuts – 1/2 cup (finely chopped)
- Icing Sugar – 1/2 cup (for dusting on top of the cake)
Serves: Makes 30 pieces
Method:
- Pre-heat oven to 200C (390F).
- Line the base of a microwaveable cake dish (7″ x 10″) with butter paper, or grease the base with butter and dust with maida or sugar till well coated and keep the dish aside.
- Sift together the flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder. Do this twice.
- In a large bowl, mix the sugar, flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, instant coffee powder and salt.
- Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla essence.
- Blend using a hand mixer until smooth. (If you feel the batter is slightly watery, dont worry, it is meant to be so).
- Add the chopped walnuts. Mix well.
- Pour batter into the greased cake dish and lightly pat the dish on the floor to even out the cake mixture inside the dish.
- Bake at 200C for 40 minutes or till done. Allow to stand for 10 minutes.
- Poke a toothpick in the sides and centre. It should come out clean.
- Cool completely on a wire rack and turn upside down on a wide dish to decorate. I dusted the top of the cake with white icing sugar. Since this cake is not too sweet, the sugar dusting goes well the the cake.
- You can choose to even frost the cake or just serve with a dollop of vanilla ice-cream and some hot chocolate sauce! Sounds sinful, doesn’t it?!!
hey mads, thanks a ton…cheers to our friendship…its a delight to have u around..keep up the good work..very proud of u..
Aaah, my pleasure Shubs…You are most welcome! Its a delight having you around too! Thanks for all the encouraging and inspiring you do
So moist and so yummy… can’t have enough of it
Oh wow Anupama, did you try it out so soon?
Yeah its yummmmmmy squared! Its that not-too-sweet kinda chocolate cake. My doctor wouldn’t be too happy to see my choco-addiction though 
Thank you. This looks really yummy, will be baking it today. Looking forword to get more of these. Thank you once again.
Oh wow! Then I know who’s house Im going to for tea today!
Let me know how the cake turns out.
Do keep coming back for more
Mads can I skip vinegar? or is there anything i can substitute it with?
Hey Rash, any particular reason you want to substitute the vinegar? I thought it doesn’t have any distinct flavour in the cake. Anyway, if you still want to substitute it, try using freshly squeezed lime juice. I have heard its the closest substitute to white vinegar. For this recipe, you could use 1 1/2 to 2 tbsps freshly squeezed lime juice. Hope this helps!
alright! Lime juice should be fine.
No such reason…just didnt want to buy a whole big bottle of white vinegar…I already have chilli vinegar for chinese which again I don’t use often!
Hmmm…I can understand. On the other hand, that small bottle of white vinegar might be well worth it if you like this cake and want to keep making it often! Think about it
Hi Mads, thanks a lot for ur recipe…i was looking out for such eggless kind of cake recipes..it came out very well..u helped me explore my baking skills..good work..keep giving good recipes..luv…
Hey Pushpa! You’re most welcome dear. Glad that you finally decided to bring out the baker in you
And now that you’ve started, don’t stop 