Six-Minute Vegan Chocolate Cake or Cupcakes
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Serves: 10-12
 
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ⅓ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water or cold coffee (coffee helps bring out the chocolate flavour of cocoa)
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 Tbsp white vinegar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
  2. Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a medium bowl (if you would rather make a single cake, mix these ingredients in an ungreased 8 inch square or 9 inch round cake pan).
  3. In a 2 cup measuring cup, mix the oil, water or coffee, and vanilla. Stir this wet mixture into the dry ingredients until smooth.
  4. Drizzle the vinegar over the cake batter, and stir until all the white swirls disappear (these white swirls are the vinegar reacting with the baking soda, which provides the leavening to this cake).
  5. Divide the batter among the muffin cups (or pour into the cake pan). Bake for 15-20 minutes for cupcakes, or 25-30 minutes for a cake. Cool on a wire rack.
  6. Serve as is, or with a vegan icing. I normally will mix together about 1 cup confectioner's sugar, 1 Tbsp melted margarine, ½ tsp vanilla extract, and up to 1 Tbsp water. Stir until smooth, then ice the cupcakes.
Recipe by Kiku Corner at https://www.kikucorner.com/2014/05/21/six-minute-vegan-chocolate-cake/