This vegan crimson velvet cake recipe is wealthy, moist, chocolatey, and topped with an indulgent vegan cream cheese frosting!

Vegan crimson velvet chocolate cake

Whether or not you want a vegan cake for Valentine’s Day, Mom’s Day, birthday events, or a daily Sunday night, this plant primarily based cake is ideal for the event.

Its fluffy texture and deep chocolate taste are so a lot better than any field cake combine you’ve ever tried earlier than.

Two layers of soppy chocolate cake are unfold with tangy selfmade frosting for a consequence that even non vegans will love.

Readers additionally love this Chocolate Mug Cake

The perfect vegan crimson velvet cake frosting

In the case of icing the cake, you may have just a few choices.

The primary choice is tremendous simple, though it isn’t the healthiest: purchase cream cheese frosting on the grocery retailer. Surprisingly, even mainstream model Pillsbury cream cheese frosting is vegan.

The second choice is to frost the cake with melted Coconut Butter.

Or you may go the standard route and make your personal dairy free cream cheese frosting from scratch, utilizing the easy recipe beneath.

Deliver Eight ounces of nondairy cream cheese to room temperature. Use beaters or a stand mixer to mix the cream cheese with Four ounces of softened plant primarily based butter, 2 cups of powdered sugar or sugar free sweetener, and an non-compulsory teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.

If the icing texture is simply too thick, slowly beat in a teaspoon of dairy free milk as wanted.

Garnish the completed cake with piped frosting, dairy free chocolate chips, chocolate ganache, pink and crimson coronary heart formed sprinkles, or crushed walnuts and cake crumbs.

I additionally added a dusting of edible crimson glitter, which you should purchase at cake adorning outlets or at some craft shops.

Use leftover frosting on Vegan Cinnamon Rolls

Components for vegan crimson velvet cake

To make the recipe, you want cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, salt, sweetener, applesauce, oil, pure vanilla extract, vegan crimson meals coloring, and water.

The recipe works properly with spelt flour, all objective white flour, oat flour, and a few manufacturers of all objective gluten free flour.

We don’t suggest coconut flour or brown rice flour.

Should you’d like to make use of almond flour, strive these Keto Red Velvet Cupcakes.

Select a impartial oil, akin to vegetable oil, sunflower oil, or refined melted coconut oil. Or for an oil free cake, merely substitute the oil with softened almond butter as an alternative.

Some readers say you may omit the oil and improve the applesauce by a half cup. Nonetheless, we now have not tried this fats free choice and subsequently can’t vouch for the feel of such a substitution.

Chances are you’ll use common sugar or a granulated sweetener that measures like sugar, akin to granulated xylitol, or packed unrefined coconut sugar or date sugar.

Be at liberty to swap out the applesauce with an equal quantity of mashed banana, roasted candy potato puree, or nondairy yogurt. If utilizing yogurt, you do not want the vinegar.

The recipe was tailored from this Vegan Chocolate Cake

Plant primarily based crimson velvet cake recipe video

Watch the step-by-step recipe video above

Meals coloring and substitutions

I went with liquid meals coloring for this recipe.

Should you choose to make use of crimson gel meals coloring, scale the quantity again to only two teaspoons as a result of gel coloring is extra concentrated. Additionally add an additional tablespoon and a half of water to make up the distinction in liquid.

As a pure different to meals coloring, you should utilize pureed beetroot or beet juice as an alternative. Merely substitute one cup of the water within the recipe beneath with one cup of beet juice. The ensuing wholesome crimson velvet cake will function a chic crimson hue, with no meals coloring required.

You can even omit the meals coloring completely, substituting two tablespoons of water as a replacement. Whereas the cake will now not exhibit a crimson hue, it is going to be simply as tasty.

Easy methods to make the recipe

Preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit.

Grease both one 9×13 inch rectangular pan or two Eight inch spherical or sq. pans. Set these pans apart.

In a big mixing bowl, stir collectively the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, sweetener, and salt till they’re evenly mixed.

You can even stir in a handful of mini chocolate chips if desired.

If utilizing onerous almond butter that’s not simple to stir, gently heat simply the quantity you want within the microwave or a warmed oven till delicate and simply stir-ready.

Whisk all liquid components, together with the meals coloring, in a brand new bowl. Or for a one bowl cake, you may technically simply add them to the unique mixing bowl.

Now stir all components collectively to kind a cake batter. To make sure the cake seems gentle and delicate, not dense or powerful, don’t overmix.

Switch the crimson velvet cake batter to the ready baking pan or pans. If utilizing two eight inch pans, evenly divide the batter between the 2 pans.

Bake on the middle rack of the oven for twenty eight minutes. Verify for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the middle of a cake. It ought to come out principally clear.

Permit the cake to chill for at the least a half hour. If time permits, refrigerate the cake till it’s absolutely cooled.

This step will make sure the cake is agency sufficient to simply take away from the pan and likewise that the frosting is not going to soften upon hitting a heat cake.

To take away the cake or truffles, go across the sides of the pan with a knife earlier than inverting the truffles onto a big plate or cooling rack.

Frost every layer individually, then stack one on high of the opposite if you’d like a double layer vegan crimson velvet cake.

Beautify the cake as desired, then serve and revel in. Or refrigerate the cake in a single day and take away from the fridge round ten or twenty minutes earlier than slicing.

Leftovers could also be saved in a coated container within the fridge for about 5 days.

As a result of there are not any eggs, you may also retailer leftover cake at room temperature for a day or two. Cowl the entire cake with saran wrap or retailer in a coated container.

Or slice and freeze leftovers in an hermetic container for as much as three months. Thaw frozen cake absolutely earlier than having fun with.

Vegan crimson velvet cupcakes

For dairy free and vegan cupcakes, make these Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes, changing one tablespoon of the water with vegan crimson meals coloring.

Prime the cupcakes together with your favourite vegan cream cheese frosting or the selfmade frosting recipe included beneath.

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