Easy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe

We love a good excuse to bake together, and this easy vegan chocolate cake recipe from @jessicainthekitchen is one of our favorites. Here's how to make it:

Ingredients     

     - 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 

     - 1 cup soy milk or other vegan milk (we used Bored Cow chocolate milk)

     - 2 cups sugar 

     - 2 cups all-purpose flour 

     - 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

     - 1 teaspoon baking powder

     - 2 teaspoons baking soda

     - 1 teaspoon sea salt

     - 1/2 cup + 2 teaspoons oil 

     - 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

     - 1 cup boiling water + 1 tbsp instant coffee mixed in until dissolved 
        (stir these together right before you need it so it's still hot)

Instructions

1. Grease and flour two 9” cake pans and line with parchment paper. 
2. Heat oven to 350°F.
3. In a small bowl, add the apple cider vinegar and the milk (we used Bored Cow chocolate milk) and stir to combine. It will curdle. Set aside. 
4. Whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl until thoroughly combined. Add milk mixture, oil and vanilla and the coffee water. Beat with an electric whisk on medium speed for about 2 minutes until everything is just combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and stir one more time to ensure everything is incorporated. 
5. Pour the batter equally into the cake pans and bake for 35 minutes. Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool for at least 30 minutes to 1 hour in the pan on a wire rack before removing from the pan and to the wire rack to cool completely. To keep the decorating simple, just top with a sprinking of powdered sugar like we did here:

Looking for more decorating tips?

Pick up Issue 3 of Anyway Mag, for an article all about cake decorating from the founder of Cake of Dreams.

Looking for a vegan milk product?

Find Bored Cow at a grocery store near you! For a limited time, Bored Cow is offering a free carton, just buy in store and text them a receipt. Claim your free carton here!

Bored Cow is a new kind of milk alternative made with milk protein from fermentation instead of cows! Translation? It's real dairy, without the cow! It has all the nutrition and functionality of dairy milk, with none of the animal cruelty, and a fraction of the environmental footprint.

Keeley McNamara and Jen Swetzoff are the founding editors of Anyway Magazine. Friends since age 5, they did a lot of growing up together and now they're just trying not to embarrass their own kids too much!