Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe (V, GF): an easy recipe for supremely rich, perfectly moist chocolate cake covered in a delicious layer of irresistible chocolate frosting! The easy vegan gluten free chocolate cake of your dessert dreams! Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free.
Moist. Rich. Chocolatey. And just about EVERYTHING you’d want in the perfect vegan chocolate cake.
Yeah, I said it. PERFECT. 
Do you have a favorite cake flavor? Without having to think too hard, you’d probably guess that my favorite cake of all time is chocolate cake. (Factually based on my favorite recipes of all time being chocolate-based: these ah-mazing paleo vegan brownies, my new fave: chocolate peanut butter energy bites and these perfectly domed-topped dark chocolate muffins).
Wait, what was I saying?? Right! There’s just something about having my cake and eating it too that makes life so much sweeter.
Of course now I have to tangent into the age-old discussion of why you would have cake and not eat it??? What’s up with that saying? It’s always bothered me!!
So after many long-winded discussions (and absolutely no internet research because obviously it’s way more fun to speculate than to look stuff up), Erik and I agreed on the following:
Having your cake = being in possession of it… meaning you have 1 cake to your name.
Eating your cake = enjoying the cake… and soon-to-be not having any more cake to your name = you can’t have the cake because you’re eating/disappearing it. Oh goodness, doesn’t “disappearing it” sound oddly brutal? 
Meanwhile, I’m all up for “disappearing” some gluten free brownies right now… 
Back to our cake talk… That clears it all up. Right?
Riiiiiight?
Let me tell you, this Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe is worth having, then eating, then not having, then making again, having, then eating and not having again, and, oh… you get the drill.
A few months back, I shared my Vegan Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. I was quite nervous to share such a big staple baking recipe, but super excited to see what everyone thought. If you haven’t tried it, spoiler alert: everyone loves it!
Ingredients
- 1⅓ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cups water
- 1 cup non-dairy milk
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract