# Best Vegan Chocolate Cake

The Best Vegan Chocolate cake made with simple ingredients in one bowl. It’s incredibly delicious, rich with chocolate flavor, and can be made gluten-free.

- Servings: 8 servings
- Total time: 20 min
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 cup Vegan buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon Flaxseed meal
- 3 tablespoons Water
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 cup Cocoa powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 cup Vegan buttermilk
- 1 cup Oil
- 1 cup Coffee
- 1 Flax eggs
- 1 cup Non-dairy whipping cream
- 1 cup Non-dairy chocolate
- 1 cup Powdered sugar
- 1 cup Cherries

## Instructions

1. Make vegan buttermilk by combining plant-based milk with lemon juice or vinegar.
2. Prepare flax eggs by mixing flaxseed meal with water.
3. In a bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Add the vegan buttermilk to the dry ingredients and mix.
5. Add the oil and coffee to the batter.
6. Add the flax eggs and mix with the hand mixer.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans and bake.
8. Make the chocolate frosting by heating non-dairy whipping cream until boiling.
9. Pour the hot cream over chopped non-dairy chocolate and mix.
10. Add powdered sugar to the chocolate frosting and mix well.
11. Reserve about 1/3 cup of the chocolate frosting for mousse filling and let the rest cool.
12. Make the mousse filling by adding the reserved frosting and some non-dairy whipping cream and mix.
13. Refrigerate the mousse filling.
14. Once the cakes are cool, place one cake layer on a plate and spread half the mousse filling over it.
15. Top the mousse filling with the second cake layer.
16. Frost the cake with the remaining chocolate frosting.
17. Decorate the cake with cherries.

## Equipment

- Mixing bowls
- Whisk
- Wooden spoon
- Hand mixer
- Cake pans
- Spatula
- Knife

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwMJ0tW0Paw
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/d01eaa7c-94bc-4b70-8bc4-cda439c13b5f
- Extracted: 2025-03-08

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