- Mmmm coffee
Hi friends, it's Sam and today my friends
are coming and visiting me.
We're gonna have my book club and I thought
I would make for my friends
the ultimate vegan chocolate cake.
Yes!
This is my favorite chocolate cake.
It took me a lot of experimenting
until I got the recipe just right.
Now I've had this recipe on my blog for a long time
and it's even made it to my cookbook because
it was one of my most popular recipes.
It's one of the classic recipes I think everyone
needs in their repertoire, very easy to make
and so amazing, sinfully delicious.
This is not something that you eat and you're like
oh this is good but it's kinda vegan tasting.
No.
This is chocolate cake to the max.
All the way up here.
Chocolate cake up here.
Maybe up here but you can't see that arm.
Those who are obsessed with chocolate cake
this is the recipe for you.
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So let's get to making chocolate cake.
Like all of my recipes,
I've designed this chocolate cake to be as easy as possible
using as easy to find ingredients as possible
so that anyone can make this chocolate cake.
You don't need any fancy schmancy ingredients.
First, grab yourself a large bowl and
to this I'm gonna add my all purpose flour.
Whisk it.
If you wanna make a one layer cake just half this recipe
or this recipe will make about 24 cupcakes
or if you wanna half the recipe,
it will make about 12 cupcakes.
Time for coffee again, it's early in the morning
you know, you gotta have coffee.
And now some sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder,
baking soda, and salt.
And now just whisk it up until it's nice and incorporated.
Smellin' chocolatey already I love it.
Okay set this aside, and moving on to our wet ingredients
Get out of the screen, get out of the shot
you are no longer needed.
Now grab a medium bowl and start with non dairy milk.
Just gonna give this a shake, I haven't opened it yet.
I'm using soy milk but you can use
whatever non dairy milk you like.
Ah!
(slow motion scream)
spilling.
Beauty.
Two third cups of light oil.
By light I just mean light in color and in flavor.
Canola oil but vegetable oil will work well
just don't use like olive or something
that's gonna have a lot of flavor and be gross.
And now this ingredient is gonna seem really weird.
I'm gonna now add Apple Cider Vinegar
- [Dictionary Voice Over] Weird.
- I know, I know, weird.
Oh oh you're cake is gonna taste gross.
So this is a hack for replacing eggs.
It doesn't work in all recipes
but I really love it in baked goods.
So you know how you're a kid and in science class and
you made those volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar?
(child laughs)
This is basically that.
So we're gonna have a little, a little explosion
and that's what's gonna make the cake rise up
and be really fluffy and lovely and gorgeous.
You're not gonna taste the vinegar,
I promise you it will cook right out.
And finally, vanilla extract.
And now just whisk it together.
See, easy peasy ingredients.
And now just pour the wet into dry.
Boom.
Mix that together.
Ah, I'm trying not to spill everywhere.
This bowl is very full.
Alright, so just mix it until it just comes together.
It's totally fine if there's lumps
but you just really wanna make sure
that you don't over mix it.
Once it comes together like this, it is good to go.
Two baking pans.
La la la.
Divide this among the baking pans.
Oh wee.
Mmm.
Getting chocolate everywhere.
Oh yeah.
Mmm.
Ohhhh chocolatey.
There's no eggs in this batter
so feel free to lick the spatula.
Lick the bowl, have at it.
Eat all the batter you want.
One of the many benefits of vegan baking.
Mmm.
And now pop the cakes in the oven
to bake for about 40 minutes.
Easy peasy.
Don't spill the cake.
Alright!
My cakes are out of the oven.
My whole house smells like chocolate,
it's so yummy in the air I love it.
They are just cooling.
You wanna make sure that your cakes
have cooled 100% before frosting.
So to make my frosting,
I'm gonna need vegan butter of choice
and then vegetable shortening.
Now the reason why you want to use vegetable shortening
is that this will help keep the frosting
fluffy and stabilized at room temperature.
So that's my tip on that.
To my frosting I'm gonna add powdered sugar.
This is a chocolate frosting for my chocolate cake
but if you want to try a different frosting recipe
I also have a vanilla frosting on my blog,
I have a cream cheese frosting,
all vegan of course in my cookbook.
I'll put the links to all these things
and the entire recipe for this cake down below.
Powdered sugar.
There we go.
Stuff gets messy.
And to this, to make it a chocolate frosting,
I'm going to add cocoa powder.
Vanilla extract to keep all of those flavors enhanced
and delicious and amazing and scrumptious and frosting-y.
I'm just rambling now.
Keep it tidy in here.
How I like it.
I'm using a hand mixer for this,
if you have a stand mixer you could use that as well.
I'm just smushing the vegan butter and
vegetable shortening a bit here.
Go slow to start.
So you don't have a big poof of sugar everywhere and cocoa.
There we go, it's starting to come together.
I'm gonna crank it up now .
Ah!
So now add non dairy milk and this just helps
soften the frosting a little bit
so start with one tablespoon,
you might now even need any tablespoons.
Mix that in and see how it goes
and then maybe I'll add a second tablespoon if I so desire.
Crank this up and really whip it.
Ah, too much whipping!
Perfect.
Beautiful.
Let's give this a taste.
Mmm.
Perfect.
Fluffy and chocolate-y and gorgeous.
So let's assemble this cake, yes!
I've got my cooled cakes here, my frosting,
and I chose this gorgeous turquoise plate because
I love turquoise.
It's my favorite color.
So pop this guy in the middle of my plate.
Some people do fancy carvings to remove excess stuff.
I'm not gonna bother with that because
this is not a cake decorating channel,
that is too fussy for me.
Take about half of the frosting.
Plop it on top.
There's nothing about that that looks delicious.
And then just spread this out to the edges.
I'm just gonna do a rustic lookin' cake
so you'll see the layers and you'll see the frosting.
I kinda like my cakes like that these days.
So place the next cake on top in the center.
Yeaaaah, beautiful.
And then the remainder of the frosting on top.
Spread this out to the edges.
And then, what I like to do for my very fancy,
not fancy at all, cake decorating
is I'll just use the tip of my spatula to do
a little zig zag pattern and that's it.
It looks beautiful, right?
I know.
And here it is.
My ultimate vegan chocolate cake.
My friends are coming later but I feel like
I need to share a slice with you.
Let's do it.
My friends won't care if there's
a slice missing out of the cake.
They're used to it.
Yeaaah.
Ahhh.
It's gonna fall, it's good, it's good, I got it, I got it
Mmmm.
Bellissimo.
Check it, beautiful chocolate cake.
Two layers and frosting and it's vegan
and fudgy and delicious.
Alright, here we go.
Oop falling.
I've got extra frosting on that bite.
Mmmm.
So good.
Oh my God.
So rich and chocolate-y.
Mmm that is some good cake.
We've really got a nice, gorgeous taste of cocoa.
It's sweet but definitely not too sweet.
Beautiful.
Mmm.
I'm gonna need a glass of almond milk with that or coffee!
Am I a coffee addict?
Mhmm, yes I am.
Oh it's not time for you to play right now.
You can't have chocolate, you're a dog.
So there is my ultimate vegan chocolate cake recipe.
I hope you like this recipe and make it for yourself.
It's divine, everyone will like it
whether they're vegan or not.
Give it a whirl and let me know how it turns out.
I'll see you next time, bon appetegan.
(chicken cluck)
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