Absurdly Easy Chocolate Cake

[Gustagirl]

omg this cake was soooo yummy ..thank you Michael :)

[MoonJumper]

:up:
This
Is t
The
BEST
Chocolate
Cake
EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, out of any cake, omni or no, that I have ever tried, this one takes the cake! :lick:
I made icing for it, too, but the bread is just scrumptious! I made a slight modification to the recipe. Instead of 2 cups of water, I used 1 cup of vanilla soymilk and 1 water. So then I only added one tsp vanilla extract...and...oh, I used 7 tbsps of cocoa...lol, what can I say? I LOVE chocolate! Thanks so much to the original poster for posting this!

[Alli]

AWESOME cake, but I burned it a little bit... :(

I guess I'll have to put it in for longer at a lower temperature? Anyone have a good time/temp. that works?

[Fyvel]

AWESOME cake, but I burned it a little bit... :(

I guess I'll have to put it in for longer at a lower temperature? Anyone have a good time/temp. that works?


I just cooked it at 350F.. never really timed it, just kept checking it and took it out when a toothpick came out clean. Maybe your oven runs hot? You could try turning it down to 325F next time. Or maybe the rack was placed too high or too low? It should be about in the middle.

As a side note: I made this for my mom's birthday last weekend and she had two helpings of it. My mother rarely has dessert at all.. for her to have two helpings is quite a feat!

[Tesseract]

If you're burning things when baking them at the temperature the recipes calls for, you may want to invest in an oven thermometer. It's very common for oven thermostats to be inaccurate. Mine runs 50 degrees hot, which can mean the difference between undercooked and burnt. Oven thermometers are inexpensive, and you can get them at stores like Target or Walmart.

[Alli]

It wasn't really burned... Just a little crisp on the outside bottom corners. I did keep it in a little longer than the recipe says, but the middle wasn't done otherwise.

Ah well, it still tastes wonderful. :D

[IdealisticGirl]

I think I am going to try this today(as cupcakes). :) Thanks for the recipe. It sounds delightful.

[Applescruff]

I took this to work today for my friend's birthday - my first attempt at a vegan cake. I was too lazy to buy ingredients for frosting, so I sprinkled it with powdered sugar and topped it with sliced strawberries. Yum! Everyone at work kept complimenting me on how moist it was and wanted to know the secret. :)

[Fyvel]

I took this to work today for my friend's birthday - my first attempt at a vegan cake. I was too lazy to buy ingredients for frosting, so I sprinkled it with powdered sugar and topped it with sliced strawberries. Yum! Everyone at work kept complimenting me on how moist it was and wanted to know the secret. :)


Oooh, what a great idea! Yum!

[MOMO17]

i'm am baking this cake as i type this, i'm gonna take it to my grandma's for her birthday. i hope it's good.

[pixiexxs]

I just had to add (like I had to) that this recipe was so good. I made it this past Saturday since I was having tons of people coming in and out of the house (lots of kids) and I wanted to have a treat for them since our field trips had been cancelled that day. I made them into cupcakes and sprinkled the tops with chocolate chunks before putting them in the oven. Absolute perfection. Everyone loved them. Even my very anti-veggie 100% carnivore brother-in-law. Only my family is vegan and everyone else was omni. They kept coming and grabbing the cupcakes. Thanks for posting this excellent recipe. Now I have a recipe for b-days and stuff.

[sassy~veg]

Made these as cupcakes for Valentine's Day and they were AMAZING! Everything turned out perfectly.
Even days later they were still moist and soooo delish!
Thanks for the recipe!

~sk

[discotechx]

I liked this cake, but I added two more teaspoons onf cocoa.I used PETA's wicked vegan fudge recipe as icing, I thought it was reaaly good.

I'm planning on making this cake, and I've got PETA's "A** Kickin' Fudge" in the fridge. I was planning on using it as icing because it didn't get hard enough to be fudge!

[lynntofu]

I've made this before and it's good! My mom made it for my birthday this year and she put in a chopped up chocolate bar and frosted it with chocolate frosting which made it delicous!!

[XxMichelexX]

Thank's for posting it!
I made it and it was very good!
:)

[Saz]

Mmmm just made this today. I tried it before and it didn't rise AT ALL but today, it did! Not sure what I got wrong last time. Anyhow, here it is.... even one small slice is so filling! I made up some frsoting stuff to go in the middle (icing sugar, vegan butter and melted chocolate all mixed together).

[Sprout726]

I just made this for my first time today!! Oh my gosh, why didn't I know of this sooner? Soo yummy! :smitten:

[IamJen]

:lick:

[SuperChicken]

I've been making an cake identical to this for years; it is delicious!

However, I add a can of cherries (pie filling or whatever you have) to the bottom of a 9x13 pan and make an upside down cake out of it. That way it almost turns out like a black forest cake.

[Mrrple]

*isn't vegan but--*

I am SO making this cake. Mm mm good <3

[IamJen]

Don't worry, you can't eat this yummy cake without your vegan membership card. :)

[froggythefrog]

Biggest benefit: No eggs to break!

A friend of mine at the time I was making it expressed concern about whether you could taste the vinegar in the final product. He was quite pleased to find that you can't.

[snownose]

I'm going to make this tommorow. :lick:

[Mrrple]

This recipe is AMAZING. My whole family, except the cats and dogs of course, just loved it! They even said they're going to make it more often because it tastes as good as if not better than our original cake recipe!

All my friends want a copy of the recipe.

Oh, but I did add more chocolate and less flour, just to make it more chocolaty :]

[IamJen]

It's bitchin when vegan food wins over the omnis, eh?

I think I already posted in in this thread, but this is one of my "safety snacks" to take to work and impress the coworkers. They never believe it's vegan. :lick:

The only trouble with this recipe is that it's so easy, I want to make it all the time! :lol: