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Vegan Hot Chocolate Cake
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Vegan Hot Chocolate Cake

This Vegan Hot Chocolate Cake topped with marshmallows is a homage to hot chocolate, everyone's favourite winter beverage.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time45 minutes
Decorating time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian
Keyword: almond milk, cocoa powder, golden syrup, self raising flour, vanilla paste, vegan butter, vegan cream, vegetable oil
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 577.46kcal

Equipment

  • 2 6 inch cake tins
  • baking paper
  • Icing bags
  • icing nozzle
  • Offset spatula

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 350 grams self raising flour
  • 200 grams cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
  • 500 grams golden syrup
  • 300 ml almond milk
  • 200 ml vegetable oil

For the icing

  • 100 grams cocoa powder
  • 350 grams icing sugar
  • 100 grams vegan butter
  • 75 ml almond milk

For the filling and decoration

  • 200 grams icing sugar
  • 50 grams vegan butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
  • 50 ml vegan cream
  • mini marshmallows to decorate

Instructions

To bake the cake

  • Line your cake tins with grease proof paper or grease well with non-dairy butter.
  • Pre-heat your own to 180C / gas mark 4 / 356F.
  • (Using the all in one method) put just half of of the cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and whisk for 3-4 minutes or until you have a smooth batter.
  • Pour the batter evenly between the two tins and bake in the centre of your oven for 25-30 minutes or until they are springy to touch and a skewer comes out clean.
  • Remove the cakes from the tins and place on a cooling rack.
  • Re-line / grease your tins before adding the remaining cake ingredients to your mixing bowl and whisking for another 3-4 minutes until you have a smooth batter.
  • Again, pour the batter evenly between the two tins and bake in the centre of your oven for 25-30 minutes or until they are springy to touch and a skewer comes out clean.
  • Again, remove the cakes from the tins and place on a cooling rack. Only once all four cakes have cooled completely move on to assemble and decorate.

To assemble and decorate the cake

  • Using a serrated knife, carefully cut off any "domed" tops from your cake – you want to make sure they are as flat as possible to make stacking them more easy.
  • In a small mixing beat together all of the ingredients for the filling and decoration except the vegan cream.
  • Whip the vegan cream before folding into the other ingredients to keep it as lightly and fluffy as possible.
  • In another large mixing bowl slowly whisk together all of the icing ingredients except the almond milk.
  • If the icing mixture is too stiff to spread or pipe, slowly add the almond milk and keep whisking until it is a smooth, creamy consistency.
  • Spread a small amount of icing (just a teaspoon's worth will do) on to your cake plate/board.
  • Carefully place your first sponge layer onto the plate and spread with 2 tablespoon of the filling.
  • Repeat this process until each of the sponge layers has been stacked on top of the others.
  • Cover the cake in a thin layer of the icing using an offset spatula and place into the fridge for 30 minutes (this will help the cake to firm up a little and become more stable – we don't want it falling over!)
  • Remove from the fridge and cover with another layer of the icing until completely smooth.
  • Fill an icing bag that has been fitted with your favourite icing nozzle with the filling/decoration mix.
  • Decorate around the top of the cake and top with mini marshmallows.

Nutrition

Calories: 577.46kcal | Carbohydrates: 115.46g | Protein: 8.84g | Fat: 14.88g | Saturated Fat: 4.44g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.29g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5.71g | Trans Fat: 1.26g | Sodium: 146.5mg | Potassium: 412.75mg | Fiber: 10.31g | Sugar: 79.02g | Vitamin A: 159.71IU | Calcium: 79.28mg | Iron: 3.82mg