The yummiest Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake, rich but light and divinely chocolatey with a creamy and fluffy vegan chocolate frosting!

I genuinely defy anyone to be able to tell this chocolate fudge cake is vegan.  It’s also deceptively simple.  In fact the hardest part is waiting for the cake to cool so you can get those bad boys frosted and devoured.  Because devour you will.  Sticky fingers.  Chocolatey face.  Who cares.

If you’re familiar with vegan baking you’ll find no surprise ingredients in this chocolate cake.  If you’re less familiar, well don’t worry because the principles to making any cake are the same vegan or otherwise.  The base ingredients are flour, sugar, liquid and raising agents.

We’re just swapping eggs for ground flax seeds to make a ‘flax egg’ and a chemical reaction between bicarbonate of soda and apple cider vinegar gives the cake that wonderful light crumb texture.  And a  dash of coconut oil replaces butter.  Nothing scary at all 😉

And like these (also divinely chocolatey) chocolate cupcakes it’s also so very simple to make.  Just sift together the dry ingredients, whisk together the wet, mix the two together, pour into the tins and bake.  Baking in two tins also means the cake takes less time to bake, there’s less chance of uncooked cake or cake sinkage and they cool down quicker.  Can I get a triple yay!

Vegan Chocolate Frosting

I contemplated using a chocolate ganache as the frosting instead of a vegan buttercream but ganache can be fiddly and it takes time to set.  And I definitely didn’t want any extra delay between making and eating this chocolate fudge cake.

Use a good quality vegan butter – the block kind rather than the spread or you’ll get a very (almost too) soft set frosting that can make the cake a little challenging to cut!  Soft spread works perfectly for these Halloween cupcakes or these strawberry muffins as it’s super easy to pipe and you get those lovely soft whippy peaks!

Being free of dairy and eggs yet full on chocolate, this vegan cake would be perfect for a birthday cake for those with relevant allergies.  However I promise it will satisfy any sweet toothed chocolate cake fiend.  I know because I live with one who devoured slice after slice until I reminded him that there was still a lot of week left that would be without vegan chocolate cake if he continued.

On a side note, I was very lucky to be sent these gorgeous pastel plates from Denby Pottery.  They’re from their Monsoon Gather collection and I swear, the prettier the plate, the better the food tastes!

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