Make our simple vegan chocolate sponge cake for a special day utilizing dairy substitutes. It's completed with luscious 'buttercream' and seasonal fruits
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:35 minutes
- Prepare dinner:20 minutes
- Simple
- Serves 10 – 12
- Dairy-free
- Egg-free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
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Make this greatest ever vegan chocolate cake for a celebration or afternoon tea, then try simpler vegan bakes.
Substances
- 150g dairy-free unfold, plus further for the tins
- 300ml dairy-free milk, we used oat milk
- 1 tbsp cider vinegar
- 300g self-raising flour
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
For the buttercream
- 100g dairy-free darkish chocolate
- 200g dairy-free unfold
- 400g icing sugar
- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp dairy-free milk, akin to oat milk
To embellish
- handful of contemporary, seasonal fruits akin to cherries, blackberries or figs
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Technique
- STEP 1
Warmth oven to 190C/170C fan/fuel 5. Grease the bottom and sides of two x 20cm sandwich tins with dairy-free unfold, then line the bases with baking parchment.
- STEP 2
Put the dairy-free milk in a jug and add the vinegar – it is going to break up however don’t fear. Put the entire different cake elements into a big bowl, pour over the milk combination and beat nicely till clean. Divide the combination between the ready tins and bake for 25-30 minutes or till a skewer inserted into the center of the desserts comes out cleanly. Go away to chill within the tins for 10mins then end up onto wire racks to chill utterly.
- STEP 3
To make the buttercream, put the chocolate right into a heatproof bowl and soften within the microwave, stirring each 30 seconds. Go away the melted chocolate to chill for five minutes. Beat the dairy-free unfold and icing sugar along with a picket spoon then sift within the cocoa powder with a pinch of salt. Pour within the melted chocolate and dairy-free milk and maintain mixing till clean.
- STEP 4
Sandwich the 2 cooled sponges along with half of the buttercream then pile the remaining on prime and down the edges. Embellish with the contemporary fruit.