Knock-Your-Socks-Off Vegan Chocolate Cake

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

Instructions

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
  2. 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.
  3. Step 3

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 40 minutes.