Decadent Vegan Chocolate Cake with Kahlúa Fudge Frosting.
This is the cake that children dream of the night before their birthday.
This is the cake that adorned farmhouse tables on a Sunday night in the 1950s.
This cake is all it is cracked up to be; moist, intense and deeply chocolatey. Smothered with glossy swirls of fudge frosting it is simply an irresistible vegan chocolate cake.
The kids clamor for my cream cheese frosting and with a little tweaking I’ve transformed it into a chocolate Kahlua frosting while still retaining the tang of cream cheese.
Salagadoola mechicka boola
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
It’ll do magic, believe it or not
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
-Cinderella

-Akshay Vasu
Her long fingered hands dip and soar like swallows in flight, her chestnut hair catches the sunlight in a way only seen in Pixar heroines, her clothes are elegantly just so. There is a vulnerability to her smile that makes me want to walk ahead of her through life and part the Red Seas of cruelty so her feet need never get damp again.
Her girlfriend is a magical creature, part unicorn, part snail, a goddess of coffee and extravagantly beautiful in a way that might be illegal in some worlds.
Today I was supposed to be writing up my Mother’s Day post. I tested the recipe three times, photographed and tweaked and color corrected, but when I woke up and realized that today was the day she and her girlfriend are returning from their quest in Arizona I had to bake a cake. Today! I am putting everything aside (except my dentist appointment) and baking a cake, a chocolate Birthday cake. Something extravagant, rich, decadent.
One piece of cake for the doctor who studied hard in med school and like Merlin combined his skill and knowledge in a spell of transformation.
One slice for the Girlfriend Goddess whose love and steadfastness is rivaled only by Samwise Gamgee.
And a big old slab of vegan chocolate cake for the lady who bravely forged through her private storms with grace and courage.
When we’ll live in this land, you and me, hand in hand
Take my hand, come along, lend your voice to my song
Come along, take my hand, sing a song
For a land through the green country
For a land to a shining sea
For a land where the horses run free
And you and me are free to be you and me
-Free to be You and Me
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This moist chocolaty cake is the ultimate in dark chocolate flavor. Smooth on the rich fudgy frosting to satisfy all chocolate cravings in one slice of heaven. Makes one 8" cake plus one 4 1/2 inch cake.
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 3/4 cups white sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- 2 cups non dairy milk
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vegan mayonaise
- 1/2 cup thick aquafaba, I usually start with 3/4 cup from a can and reduce it to 1/2 cup.
- 1/2 cup vegan cream cheese
- 1/4 cup vegan butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tbsp non-dairy milk
- 1 tbsp Kahlua
- pinch salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
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Heat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Lightly oil your pan, I used coconut oil.
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Sift your dry ingredients into a large bowl.
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Place your non-dairy milk into a medium sized bowl and stir in your apple cider vinegar. Let sit for 5 minutes.
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Give your aquafaba a quick whisk till it is slightly frothy. No need to whip it. Okay 5 minutes have passed, add the rest of your wet ingredients (vanilla, mayonnaise, aquafaba) to the bowl with your soy milk.
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Whisk your wet ingredients for 1 minute until just frothy. Pour your wet ingredients into the dry and stir of whisk to combine well. Do not over mix.
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Place your pan(s) in the centre rack of the oven and bake. My small 4 1/2 " pan took 28 minutes my large 8" pan took 36.
Start checking your cakes at around 26 minutes by inserting a bamboo skewer (or fork) into the centre. The skewer should come out without streaks of uncooked batter but should be moist to the touch.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before frosting.
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Cream the butter and cream-cheese on high in a stand mixer or with a hand held mixer. When light and fluffy add the Kailua and vanilla and mix well.
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Now add the cocoa powder and beat until you have a fudgy thick smooth mixture. Add 1 cup of sifted confectioner's sugar and beat 3 minutes on high. Taste the frosting and if it isn't sweet enough for you add more sugar 1/4 cup at a time.
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Chill the frosting for 1/2 minutes in the fridge to allow it to thicken.
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Whip the frosting again before applying to the cake. This second whip will add more air and lightness to the frosting. Frost your cake once it has cooled completely.
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Vegan mayo in a chocolate cake? I love it! The photo of the voluptuously smoky candle almost make me miss smoking. The pictures of the pre- and post-reduced aquafaba are really helpful.
I’ve read about “regular” cakes having mayo and that it adds a moistness so I tried with vegan mayo and it seems to do the same. Fat is a wonderful ingredient. I wish I could have given you a slice. The smell of the candles drove me crazy with nostalgia. I would wear that as a perfume, wax and smoke and burning wick.
Making gluten free chocolate cake and want to use this for icing. What is the difference in measurement of ingredients?
Sorry I haven’t tested this as Gluten Free. Please let me know if you make it. King Arthur gf flour mix works best for me in cakes. Good luck!!!