- Hi, guys. I'm Suresh from sureshny.
I'm really excited to be here
doing a video for LIVEKINDLY today.
I'm gonna show you
one of my absolute favorite chocolate cakes,
and it just so happens to be vegan.
I have tricked many friends and family with this cake
to thinking it's full-on a dairy cake.
And I am really, really psyched to show you
how easy it is to make.
It really does not require that many ingredients at all.
So without further ado, let's go.
Alright, so step one is really, really easy.
You literally add all the dry ingredients together.
So just like this,
we're just gonna mix all the ingredients together
until it looks like this.
So now it's time for our wet ingredients,
and we're gonna start with 2/3 cup of oil,
creating a little bit of a well here in the center.
And then we're gonna do two cups of water.
Two teaspoons of our distilled white vinegar.
This replaces the egg in a traditional cake.
Two teaspoons of good vanilla.
I feel so Ina Garten when I say that.
Time to mix, kids.
This part definitely should be done by hand
because you really want to feel the batter
kind of forming and coming together.
Oh, it smells good!
We are now going to transfer the batter
into our prepared cake pans.
Just like that. Beautiful.
My partner who's operating cameras for me today
is very excited.
We're gonna have chocolate cake for days.
Make sure that your racks are in the center.
We're going to set the timer for half an hour.
And then for the icing it's gonna be super simple.
The foundation of our vegan icing is going to be
these vegan butter sticks
that are going to substitute butter.
We're gonna start with two sticks and see how that looks.
It's gonna get nice and loud.
And in about three to four minutes of mixing this around
on low to medium speed,
it starts to look nice and kind of pale white.
Before we keep going, I'm going to add
just a little bit of salt.
We're gonna do just a 1/4 teaspoon of salt here.
We're gonna also add a teeny-tiny bit of vanilla extract,
but we're gonna do one teaspoon.
So we're going to go ahead and start mixing again.
All right. So now we get to the fun part.
We get to start adding in the powdered sugar,
and I kind of like to do a few tablespoons at a time.
I find that that lets the butter absorb the icing,
and it doesn't get clumpy this way, okay?
Just like that.
Alright, the cakes are done.
Alright, so the cakes are cooling.
I'm going to set a 10-minute timer
because what we're gonna do in 10 minutes
is we're going to de-pan the cakes
and let them cool after that.
You don't want to let them sit in the pans for too long
because they can kind of fuse to the pan,
and that's never cute.
So while that's happening, let's go ahead
and continue with our icing.
Okay, so I can feel the icing thickening and stiffening,
because it's getting a little bit tougher
to navigate my mixer.
That's when you know, like right like this,
when it's not really falling off,
that's when you know that it's starting to come together.
(timer beeping) Oh, our cakes are ready
to be de-panned.
And here we go.
Just like that. Beautiful.
Just put that on top here and put that around.
Just make sure that it's separating from the base.
Beautiful. Just look at that.
How gorgeous is that, right?
So let's go ahead and incorporate the cocoa
into our icing mix.
It's the same cocoa that we use for the baking.
And I'm going to first start by mixing this in by hand
so that I don't get chocolate powder everywhere.
So I'm gonna go back in with my hand mixer,
we're gonna get it on to medium, medium high,
and really, really whip this icing up.
Alright, so this is looking beautiful.
The consistency of it is nice, and thick, and rich.
While the cakes are cooling,
we're going to let the icing rest.
We're just gonna cover it up,
pop it in the fridge for a little while,
kind of let it all set and come together.
So my cakes have fully cooled.
It's been about an hour, hour and a half.
We're going to start with the middle layer here.
I want to have some preserves in this middle layer.
We're just gonna kind of drop it into little lumps
and it'll just kind of spread itself out.
Time for our second layer.
Very gently we'll give it a little bit of a press.
We're just gonna take a big blob of this,
put it right on top and then just smooth it out.
What you're gonna love about this cake, you guys,
is how no one will know that it's vegan.
Now, the final little bit that I want to do is
put some strawberries on top, just like so.
This is what our final cake will look like.
We are ready to eat this cake.
So ready to slice it open.
It smells so good in my kitchen.
But before I do, I really would like my darling Lincoln
to come and accompany me.
So come on over, Lincoln.
This is my guy behind the camera and my beloved.
So thank you for all of your help tonight.
- Yeah, of course. It looks delicious.
- How does it smell?
- It smells so well.
I really am getting in the realm of the strawberries
right now. - Okay, good.
- But the frosting smells fantastic.
- So let's go ahead and cut a big slice of this out.
Cuts like a dream.
Ooh! - Oh my God.
- Check it out. Check it out.
Cheers!
- Oh my God.
- Mmm. Good, right?
- It's so rich.
- I really hope that you guys try this cake.
It is so, so simple to make.
So definitely let us know what you guys think
of the recipe.
With that I think we're gonna go finish this cake.
- Yeah, I'm ready for more. - Right!