Serves a Crowd
Chocolate Chip Cake with Buttercream Icing (Vegan)
- Makes 1 Two Layered Cake
Author Notes
I've recently become obsessed with vegan baking, mostly because I'm lactose intolerant. This cake is delicious, and keeps in the fridge for about a week...if it lasts that long. My husband adores it, and he's the furthest thing from a vegan that you can get! Enjoy. —Anna McCool
What You'll Need
Ingredients
- For the Cake
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2 1/2 cups
Flour
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2 teaspoons
Baking Soda
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1 teaspoon
Baking Powder
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1/2 teaspoon
salt
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2 cups
Sugar
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1 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract
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1 cup
Unsweetened Applesauce
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1/2 cup
Butter Substitute (I prefer Earth Balance)
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1/2 cup
Almond Milk (I prefer sweetened, vanilla flavor)
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1/8 teaspoon
yellow food dye
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1/2 bag
Vegan Chocolate Chips
- For the Buttercream Icing
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3 cups
Butter Substitute (I prefer Earth Balance)
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1 8 oz box
Powdered Sugar
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3-4 tablespoons
Cocoa
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1 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl. Combine sugar, vanilla extract, applesauce, butter substitute, almond milk, and yellow food dye into a separate large bowl, cream until smooth.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into the wet ingredients bowl, mixing with egg beaters until smooth. Once the ingredients are combined, fold in 1/2 bag of vegan chocolate chips by hand.
- Grease and flour 2 8" round cake tins (I use Earth Balance butter), pour in batter. The batter should only take up about 1/3 of each tin. Bake the cakes for 30 minutes, test with a toothpick. Bake cakes until the toothpicks come out clean.
- Let the cakes cool on a cooling rack COMPLETELY before you ice!! Otherwise you end up with melty icing, and it's just the worst.
- While the cakes cool, combine the icing ingredients into a large bowl, and cream until smooth. Let it sit in the fridge for about an hour while the cakes cool off. When the cakes are ready to be assembled, take the icing out of the fridge. You may have to give the icing a stir, as sometimes the "butter" firms back up.
- Place one cake on the cake platter, cover top with icing, then put the other cake on top. Coat entire outside with the faux buttercream icing. Put cake in the fridge! The icing won't keep out on the counter.
- Enjoy! The best part is when you don't tell people it's vegan, and they love it anyways. That's what I always do with my husband, poor thing.
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