This Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting is a vegan twist on a classic favorite. Moist, fluffy cake with a rich chocolate frosting—perfect for any celebration!
3cupsall purpose flour or 1 to 1 gluten free baking flour
1 ½cupsorganic cane sugar
1teaspoonbaking soda
1teaspoonbaking powder
1teaspoonsea salt
1teaspoonground turmeric
1 ½cupsunsweetened plain oat milk
1cupcanola oil
¼cupapple cider vinegar
1tablespoonalcohol free vanilla extract
Frosting:
½cuproom temperature vegan butter
½cupnon hydrogenated vegetable shortening
1 ¼cupsunsweetened cocoa powder
4cupsorganic powdered sugar
1tablespoonalcohol free vanilla extract
4tablespoonsunsweetened plain oat milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350. Add parchment paper rounds, or squares cut to size, to the bottom of two 8 or 9 inch round cake pans. Lightly grease with cooking spray.
Add the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and turmeric to a bowl and whisk to combine.Add the milk, oil, vinegar and vanilla, whisk to combine, there will be some lumps, that is ok.
Divide among prepared baking pans and bake for 35-40 minutes until top is golden yellow and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
While the cake is baking, prepare the frosting. Add the butter and shortening to a bowl and use a hand mixer to stand mixer to cream the butter and shortening together. Add the powdered sugar to the bowl 1 cup at a time and cream together on low speed. Add the vanilla and oat milk and cream together until smooth and creamy and a thick frosting has formed.
Remove cake from the oven and let cool completely. Invert the pans on a clean surface to let the cakes drop out. Frost one layer, top with the next layer of cake. Frost second layer and sides. Slice into 16 pieces.
Notes
Youtube offers fantastic frosting tutorials to elevate your frosting technique.