One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze
One Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze is ultra-moist, deeply decadent, and wonderfully easy to make.
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
- Instead of both brown and refined sugar, you can add anyone of these.
- 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.