Vegan Absurdly Easy Chocolate Cake

[IamJen]

Ingredients:

3 cups flour (680 grams)
2 cups sugar (450 grams)
6 tablespoons cocoa (100 grams)
2 teaspoons baking soda (10 cc's = 10 ml)
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup vegetable oil (200 cc's)
2 tablespoon vinegar (30 cc's)
2 teaspoon vanilla (10 cc's)
2 cup cold water (480 cc's)

Directions:
Mix the dry ingredients. Make three wells in the dry mix. In one well, pour the vanilla. In another pour the vinegar and finally in the third, pour the oil. Pour the cold water over the entire thing and mix well.

Bake at 350 F - 175/180 °C degrees for 25-30 for a layer cake. (little bit less for cupcakes, little bit more for a 9x9)

 

[Second Summer]

Goes well with vegan ice cream! (Swedish Glace etc.)

 

[Everleigh]

I may have to try this soon.What can I sub the oil with?

 

[thefadedone]

I usually use applesauce when subbing oil in baked goods. I haven't made this particular recipe though , but I would assume it would still work out well.

 

[Everleigh]

I usually use applesauce when subbing oil in baked goods. I haven't made this particular recipe though , but I would assume it would still work out well.

So should I use 3/4 cup applesauce or less.What do you think?

 

[Freesia]

Sometimes I use coconut cream or coconut milk instead of vegetable oil in baking. I cant guarantee whether it will always turn out though. It is just an oily thing that isnt vegetable oil.

And another thing, always smell coconut milk before adding it to your cooking! Occasionally you can open some and it turns out to have gone off.. smells really bad.

 

[Everleigh]

Sometimes I use coconut cream or coconut milk instead of vegetable oil in baking. I cant guarantee whether it will always turn out though. It is just an oily thing that isnt vegetable oil.

That's an interesting idea,Freesia.

 

[ledboots]

So should I use 3/4 cup applesauce or less.What do you think?

I often sub applesauce for oil in baked sweets, and I do equal to how much oil. I often use a little oil and the rest applesauce though; for that yummy choco cake recipe I would probably use 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce and 1/4 cup oil. But when cooking for people who want no fat, I do all applesauce.

Once I tried substituting canned crushed pineapple instead of applesauce , thinking why not? ...Well, I discovered that the enzymes in pineapple ruin the texture of the brownies is why not.

 

[thefadedone]

I often sub applesauce for oil in baked sweets, and I do equal to how much oil.

Same here.

Once I tried substituting canned crushed pineapple instead of applesauce , thinking why not? ...Well, I discovered that the enzymes in pineapple ruin the texture of the brownies is why not.

Now that's interesting and good to know! I've used canned pumpkin in place of applesauce and that's worked out well too.

Sometimes I use coconut cream or coconut milk instead of vegetable oil in baking. I cant guarantee whether it will always turn out though. It is just an oily thing that isnt vegetable oil.

And another thing, always smell coconut milk before adding it to your cooking! Occasionally you can open some and it turns out to have gone off.. smells really bad.

That's another good idea.

 

[ledboots]

Canned pumpkin s a great idea, I will use that.

 

[SummerRain]

Mmm I have a recipe which is pretty much the same as this from what I can remember. It's fantastic, always comes out really well. I think there is a lot to be said for recipes that don't have any difficult to find/expensive/specialist ingredients.

 

[KLS52]

I made this and brought it to work yesterday. It is such an amazing cake. People were fawning all over me, haha. I love getting attention for my baked goods.