Vegan Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
A moist and dense cake which comes with the classic flavor combination of coffee and chocolate. The best part beside the flavor and the taste is the ease of baking this vegan cake.
This is a coffee cake with coffee (Note that a coffee cake is a cake served with coffee or may be eaten as a dessert, but does not necessarily contain coffee.) The recipe is adapted from Sharmila’s beautiful blog Kichu Khon. She posted the Eggless Coffee Cake sometime back, and I made it a few days after. I made it, ate it and forgot about it; until few days back when I came across the photos and realized that it was not posted.
What appealed to me was not that it was eggless, but that she used no egg substitute for the cake! I almost expected mine to fall apart, for I made slight changes to her recipe… I have trouble following recipes word by word; but it did not. It was perfect and everyone loved it!!
The changes I made: I made it vegan too; so I used soy milk instead of milk. I used some chocolate/chips along with the coffee. I also made up some kind of ganache icing for the cake which worked too. Do give it a try, it is simple with only few ingredients, but a definite charmer.
Here is Sharmila’s Recipe. I have written my version below.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Cup Cooking Oil (better if you use a few teaspoons more)
- 1/2 Cup Soy Cup Milk
- 2.5 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1.5 Cups Sugar
- 1 Pinch Salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 Cup Dark or Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips/Finely Chopped Dark or Semi Sweet Chocolate (Use Vegan Brand: Sunspire, Enjoy Life, Whole Food Brand etc)
- 4 Tablespoons Instant Coffee Powder (the granules are better) – use more or less as per taste .
- Coconut/Dark and White Chocolate shavings/or any fruit; for topping (Optional) – omit the white for vegan
For the Icing:
- 2.5 Cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips/Finely Chopped Dark or Semi Sweet Chocolate
- 3/4 Cup Soy Milk
- 1.5 Teaspoons Olive Oil/Any Cooking Oil
- 1 Tablespoon Instant Coffee Powder (Optional)
- 2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup (or Honey for non Vegan version)
Preparation:Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grind the sugar into a powder.
Combine oil, milk, vanilla extract, salt and sugar. Sift the flour and the baking powder in to the oil/milk mix. Add the coffee powder. Whisk everything together making sure there are no lumps. The mixture should not be too thick, neither too watery; more like a condense milk consistency. Add little bit more soy milk if it gets too thick and tight.
When the mix has reached the desired consistency and is lump free, gently fold in the chocolate chips/pieces in the mix.
Grease & flour a baking pan and pour the mix in it. Bake till a toothpick comes out clean.
Remove from oven only when the cake has cooled.
Cool the cake before spreading the ganache (Recipe below).
Vegan Chocolate Ganache Icing:Put the Chocolate chips/finely chopped chocolate into a heatproof bowl.
Heat the soy milk, and the coffee powder in a pan over medium; switch off the heat as it just starts to boil. Pour all of the the hot liquid mix carefully over the chocolate and maple syrup. As the chocolate begins to melt, stir gently with a wire whisk until smooth and lump free. Whisk the olive oil in the ganache.
Let the ganache sit for about 10 minutes at room temperature; it should be thick but smooth enough to spread on the cake.
Do not refrigerate; it will get firm. (If you refrigerate the ganache, you will need to warm it back again before spreading)
Icing the Cake:Stir the ganache again before spreading on the cake. Spoon it/pour it on the cake and spread it around. Let it cool.
Sprinkle the chocolate shavings on the icing if you are using them.
Slice by slice they were all gone in a single day. We had some friends over and we enjoyed some coffee with company with the all vegan coffee cake.
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Such gorgeous pictures! This vegan cake looks amazing!
what a mouth-watering cake…..delightful !
the cake looks “to die for” 🙂 such a rich, delicious cake…..
Soma, the cake is absolutely delicious. I am craving for some right now.
Looks absolutely delicious…good DH is not here right now….he’s asking me from so long that why i don’t make coffee cake anymore….but for some reason whenever i bake a cake i totally forget……
Soma, that looks like a delicious cake. It is always hard to find good coffee choco combos but I am guessing this is one of those all time classic ones. I will probably use regular milk for the cake but I am definitely gonna try this one. I have some Shaffenburger dark choc sitting in the pantry, which will be perfect for the cake, if I don’t eat it first.
BTW, I also made your choco covered lady fingers the other day and they were delicious. I used coffee instead of rum to soak them and then covered them with some semi sweet chocolate. Yummy…
Thanks:-) Thanks for letting me know about the ladyfingers. Coffee and chocolate are a great combo. Glad you liked it?
mmmmm ,..:-)
The once with icing dripping on the sides looks inviting:)!
Choco chips & vegan too! Wow! Glad you liked it … I don’t think I can go all the way with icing … I start slicing and eating it when still warm. 🙂
Like the definition of coffee cake. 🙂
Sharmila Thank you very much for this beautiful recipe 😉
It looks wonderful! Lovely icing!
cheers,
Rosa
That looks amazing! Thanks for the great recipe.
This cake is just making me drool. This is the type of cake I like, moist dense with not too much icing. Perfect with my cuppa tea 🙂
Wow,amazing pictures and a yummy looking cake! Sounds too good !!
Delicious.I know the taste.The coffee choc combo is much to die for.Enjoy the cake.
That is gorgeous vegan cake- did ur semi-sweet choco is vegan too?
Yes Cham. I use the Whole Food ones for Vegan; they use cane sugar and no dairy..I have updated the post now. Thanks!
Here are some other ones:
Sunspire
Enjoy Life
Whole Food Brand
What a delight soma…the picture and the recipe…your family is surely lucky and so are your friends who enjoys such treats from you, only virtual friends like us are left drooling with marvelous pictures..how unfair life could be..sigh ..sigh !
simply delicious – this looks decadent and rich!
Thanks a lot Soma!! i was searching a good vegan/eggless recipe of cake for my parents as they are here & they are with us for few days & r pure veges!! will sure try this one!!!
Cake looks lovely Soma!
That looks beautiful, and I love the rich coffee glaze you poured on.
This sounds delicious and looks beautiful.
Excellent…love the rich coffee cake and ofcourse the eggless version..
That cake sounds delicious, Soma! I was looking for a good vegan cake recipe for a while…..I have a good friend and her kid is allergic to dairy. This cake is perfect. Thank you!
Sounds really good. I love to eat cake with my coffee.
What a wonderful coffee cake, and I love this vegan version, very nice!
That’s one perfect cake Soma. I too am going to try this one.
Lovely cake Soma… Love the combinations..Yeah am back!!! :))
This cake looks amazing–I love that it is vegan. It looks just as moist and delicious as a non vegan coffee cake. I have friends that are vegan and I can’t wait to surprise them with this cake!
Does that looks divine or what?I can have it right now..
What a gorgeous looking cake! It looks incredibly delicious!
😀 do you see what am making when I run out of eggs or when I have to show my mother in law what a lovely cake baker I am? And I dont’ use eggs 😉 So talented
Bwahaha! Soma, thanks for this recipe, seriously.
Wow! that sounds absolutely delicious, I must have just gained a few pounds from just reading this! Hope to get through some more of your recipes later!
Mmm, who knew a vegan cake could be so moist and delicious!?
I have not bake chocolate cake for a long time & your post inspire me to bake one right now … it’s 3:06 am here 🙂
Gorgeous pictures 😀
hi, i have gone through your blog its so fantastic work you have done their. i would like to have more information from you…thanks for doing the great job..cheerup!
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About how long does it take to bake? I didn’t notice a timeframe in the recipe. I assume you turn the oven off but leave the cake in once the toothpick comes out clean, but the cake continues to bake for however long it takes your oven to cool itself down?
This is has got to be one of the most delicious treats I’ve ever tasted, hands down! It was love at first bite! Very simple and absolutely delicious! Thanks so much for this!