EP 5: Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake
Serves: 8
Difficulty: Easy
Prep: ~15 min
Cook time: ~45 minutes
A very simple cake made with items already in your cupboard. Be ready to shock your non-vegan friends!
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp distilled white vinegar
1 cup water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add the oil, vanilla, vinegar and water. Mix together until smooth. Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Notes:
I’ve used brown rice vinegar instead of white in a pinch.
You can substitute applesauce for the oil to lower the fat content, but the texture of the cake may be compromised.
Nuts and/or vegan-friendly chocolate chips make nice additions to this cake.
You may want to flour or lay some parchment paper in the bottom of the pan in addition to greasing it. I sometimes have a little trouble removing the cake.
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November 28th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
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December 29th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I love cooking, and im a vegan, so it’s essential for me to find new recipes, cause we all know that be creative can capture non-vegan taste, in my case, i manage to turn my mom into a vegetarian (she doesn’t eat eggs but drink milk) just cooking different dishes for her, including cakes, national dishes and alternatives for everything she used to love. So, thanks for giving us new, simple and creative options.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am
this cake looks amazing, and very simple. I am looking forward to making it later on this evening. Shhh! Don’t tell my husband!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I’m making this as a birthday cake, and I’m so excited to try it!
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October 20th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
This is a great recipe!
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I make them again as mafini.
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April 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am