Knock-Your-Socks-Off Vegan Chocolate Cake
This is our go-to cake recipe now. After years of making 'depression cake' for our egg- and dairy-allergic son, we finally discovered that xanthan gum is the necessary ingredient for combating crumbly cake! This can easily be a vegan cake, or a not-necessarily-vegan cake, you throw together with stuff in your pantry! Cool completely, frost as desired, and enjoy!
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- Serves: 12 persons
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 3cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2½ teaspoons xanthan gum
- 2teaspoons baking soda
- 1teaspoon kosher salt
- 2cups water
- 2cups demerara sugar
- ¾cup vegetable oil
- 2tablespoons white vinegar
- 2teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.Step 2
Whisk flour, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Add water, sugar, vegetable oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract to dry ingredients; mix until batter is just moistened and pour into the prepared baking dish.Step 3
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes.