One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze

28 Apr One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze

Last Updated on April 28, 2026 by blessmyfoodbypayal

One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze with step wise pictorial and video method.

Do you really think that for a perfect soft and fluffy cake, one necessarily needs eggs, milk, butter and cream?

If yes, then please allow us to prove you wrong. Lol.

This easy eggless vegan chocolate cake from scratch is completely free from all the ingredients in question, yet the most soft and fluffy cake we have ever eaten. And yes, one bowl is a bonus.

This soft and fluffy vegan chocolate sponge cake is something which proves the myth wrong that vegan is boring. 

This cake is ultra soft without eggs, so creamy without condensed milk and so rich without butter. 

Deep chocolate flavour, soft crumb, rich cocoa aroma and glossy chocolate glaze dripping,  this homemade vegan chocolate cake with glossy glaze has everything what a typical Chocolate Cake is supposed to have.

Not just for satisfying the routine sweet carvings, but this is the best moist vegan chocolate cake for birthdays, anniversaries or for celebrating any special occasions. 

Use of one bowl makes it beginner-friendly and requires minimal cleanup. 

Although you can enjoy this dairy free chocolate cake with cocoa powder from the very stage when cake was done but there can be no distinctive opinions that the chocolate glaze elevates it, not only visually but in richness as well.

So go down and have a look at plant based chocolate dessert with simple ingredients shared by bless my food by Payal.

Step wise pictorial recipe of One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze 

MAKING OF CAKE 

Take a bowl and put a sieve on it. Add flour, cocoa powder, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda, coffee powder and salt. Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl. Add brown sugar and refined sugar. Give them a good mix. Create a vacuum in the middle.

Add oil, vanilla essence and vinegar. Now start adding mixing while adding hot water. Keep whisking simultaneously. Mix. Make sure there remains no lumps. Transfer this batter in a cake tin lined with greased butter paper.

Tap the tin few times so that there remains no air bubbles. Bake in a preheated oven @180°C  for 40-45 minutes. Check by inserting a toothpick and if it’s come out clean, its a sign that cake is thoroughly baked.  Place the cake tin on wire rack and let it cool down a bit for 15-20 minutes only. Don’t wait to let it cool down completely. Invert the cake. Now let the cake cool down completely. If you like, you can stop the process here and start enjoying the cake. But we will go ahead to make it super chocolaty.

MAKING OF CHOCOLATE GLAZE 

Add dark chocolate in a microwave safe cup and also add powdered sugar, water and oil.  Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, for a total of 2 minutes. In case you don’t have microwave, you can melt the chocolate using double boiler method. Check out the details here. Mix well. If anywhere you feel it needs little more melting, just go for 10-20 more microwaving. Let the glaze cool down slightly. Spread it all over the cake. Decorate the cake with anything you like or just leave as it is until chocolate glaze is completely set.

Cut into slices and enjoy.

NOTES

1. Instead of both brown and refined sugar, you can add anyone of these.
2. Powdered sugar is added in the glaze because dark chocolate is slightly high on bitter side. If you are ok with that bitterness or otherwise using milk chocolate, no need to add powdered sugar.

One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze – Recipe card

One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze

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One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze is ultra-moist, deeply decadent, and wonderfully easy to make.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Course Cake

Cuisine world

Servings 1 Cake

Ingredients

  

1 cup = 250 ml

FOR MAKING CAKE

• 195 gram all purpose flour (1+ 1/2 cup)
• 21 gram cocoa powder (unsweetened, 1/3 cup)
• 60 ml oil (1/4 cup)
• 100 gram refined sugar (1/2 cup)
• 115 gram brown sugar (1/2 cup)
• 310 ml boiling hot water (1+1//4 cup)
• 1 tbsp instant coffee powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• Pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tbsp white vinegar

FOR CHOCOLATE GLAZE

• 100 gram dark chocolate (1/2 cup)
• 1 tbsp coconut oil (or any neutral oil)
• 1 tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp water

Instructions

 

MAKING OF CAKE

• Take a bowl and put a sieve on it.
• Add flour, cocoa powder, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda, coffee powder and salt.
• Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl.
• Add brown sugar and refined sugar.
• Give them a good mix.
• Create a vacuum in the middle.
• Add oil, vanilla essence and vinegar.
• Now start adding mixing while adding hot water.
• Keep whisking simultaneously.
• Mix. Make sure there remains no lumps.
• Transfer this batter in a cake tin lined with greased butter paper.
• Tap the tin few times so that there remains no air bubbles.
• Bake in a preheated oven @180°C for 40-45 minutes.
• Check by inserting a toothpick and if it's come out clean, its a sign that cake is thoroughly baked.
• Place the cake tin on wire rack and let it cool down a bit for 15-20 minutes only. Don't wait to let it cool down completely.
• Invert the cake.
• Now let the cake cool down completely. If you like, you can stop the process here and start enjoying the cake. But we will go ahead to make it super chocolaty.

MAKING OF CHOCOLATE GLAZE

• Add dark chocolate in a microwave safe cup and also add powdered sugar, water and oil.
• Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, for a total of 2 minutes. In case you don't have microwave, you can melt the chocolate using double boiler method. Check out the details here.
• Mix well. If anywhere you feel it needs little more melting, just go for 10-20 more microwaving.
• Let the glaze cool down slightly.
• Spread it all over the cake.
• Decorate the cake with anything you like or just leave as it is until chocolate glaze is completely set.
• Cut into slices and enjoy.

Notes

1. Instead of both brown and refined sugar, you can add anyone of these.
2. Powdered sugar is added in the glaze because dark chocolate is slightly high on bitter side. If you are ok with that bitterness or otherwise using milk chocolate, no need to add powdered sugar.

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