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This Vegan Chocolate Gingerbread Cake has an amazing flavor profile. Ginger, candied ginger, dark chocolate add a pleasing bitter combination with gingerbread spices. 1 Bowl. Vegan Soyfree Nutfree Recipe GF option Jump to Recipe
Ginger and Chocolate in baked goods work very well together in the cold season. The craving for spice and chocolate gets satisfied with every bite! Warm gooey chocolate, loads of ginger and gingerbread spices.
This loaf has cocoa, fresh ginger and gingerbread spices in the wet and candied ginger and chopped up dark or regular chocolate in the dry. It bakes into a slightly dense pound cake like loaf that is best served warm. If storing for longer, warm before serving so that the chocolate can melt a bit and get gooey and delicious. Its almost like a gingerbread brownie! Serve as a snack or top with whipped coconut cream or a chocolate frosting for dessert.
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Vegan Chocolate Gingerbread Cake
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp non dairy milk, , boiling hot
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 3 tbsp oil, or use more non dairy milk
- 1 tsp vinegar, or lemon juice
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup brown sugar, or cane sugar + 1 tbsp molasses (1/3 cup if using semi sweet chocolate)
- 2 tsp minced fresh ginger, optional
Dry:
- 1.25 to 1.5 cups flour, (I use a mix of all purpose and whole wheat)
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1.5 tsp gingerbread spice, ,less or more to preference (or 3/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, dashed of ground cloves, nutmeg)
- 1/4 cup chopped vegan chocolate, , dark or semi sweet or a mix
- 1/3 cup chopped candied ginger
- 2 tbsp mini chocolate chips for topping, optional
Instructions
- Grease or line a loaf pan with parchment. Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (180 C).
- In a bowl, mix the hot non dairy milk and cocoa until combined. Add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Add 1 cup flour, spices, salt, baking powder and baking soda to the wet. Mix the dry ingredients lightly before combining into the wet. (Or alternatively, mix in another bowl and then add to the wet)
- Add the chocolate, candied ginger and 1/4 cup flour and mix in to make a muffin like batter. Add more flour if too flowy. This batter is good to bake into muffins, mini loafs or cake pan. If baking a large loaf, add a few tbsp more flour until the batter is stiff, and then drop into prepared loaf pan. Use a clean spoon or spatula to even it out.
- Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on top if desired. Bake for 45 mins. Check with a toothpick from the middle. (muffin 22 min, shallow cake pan 35 mins)
- Cool for 10 mins then remove from pan. Cool to room temp before slicing. Serve warm (warm to melt the chocolate if already cooled) as a snack or top with whipped coconut cream or a chocolate frosting for dessert.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
So good. Made them as muffins. They came out of the oven 15 min ago and I already ate 4 😳
great idea
I dont have any apple sauce, cd i use banana?
Use yogurt or cashew cream
If you aren’t using premade gingerbread spice are you supposed to use the full amounts of the ingredients you listed as an alternative or do you mix those together and take 1.5 tsp? I used the full amounts and it was way too much ginger flavor so I’m thinking I may have read it wrong. It tasted like ginger bread instead of gingerbread lol!
Another question – can’t find candied ginger anywhere 🙁 what can I use? What is candies ginger?
Omit it. It’s ginger that is cooked in sugar syrup and gets dry and chewh
Can I use something else instead of apple sauce?
Nondairy yogurt, or cashew cream or coconut cream
Hello!!
Do you know where to buy candied ginger? Also, in case I cannot find it, how much ground ginger would be a good substitute?
It’s available in regular stores. You can omit it. Add some dried fruit such as dates instead and add 1/4 tsp more ground ginger
soooo good! my place smells amazing! can’t wait to share this with friends 🙂 thank you!
awesome!
What are the measurements to make this in a bundt pan?
i havent made this in a bundt. it depends on the size of the pan. you might need double the batter or same amount depending onthe size
It is a 10 inch bundt pan.
Loved this recipe!!
Made it this evening using plain wholemeal flour which turned out great!
Had it with vegan vanilla custard.
A wonderful combination of ginger and chocolate….seriously delicious!!
yum
Wondwerfully rich and delicious and perfect texture. Thanks, richa.
LOVED THIS! Super easy and delicious to make. Thank you for making vegan baking so easy to do by using ordinary ingredients!
awesome!