18 Vegan Cake Recipes That Will Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
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These vegan cake recipes will help you make the best cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and everything else you want to celebrate.
To get started making cake, you’ll need the following items:
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- Non-stick round cake pans
- Cake decorating kit
- KitchenAid stand mixer
- Cake knife
- Rainbow sprinkles
- Food coloring
Vegan Cake Recipe #1 – Funfetti Cake
Funfetti Cake
Funfetti is my favorite kind of cake! Short Girl Tall Order made a recipe for it that’s dairy free and egg free. The rainbow sprinkles in the cake make it so pretty and colorful. You’ll need 9 inch cake pans for baking the cake batter. The recipe has a 5 star rating.
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2. German Chocolate Cake
German Chocolate Cake
This recipe for German chocolate cake is from Allergylicious. It’s a chocolate cake with coconut icing and chocolate ganache. This recipe is gluten free.
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3. Strawberry Cake
Strawberry Cake
My Quiet Kitchen made this recipe for plant based strawberry cake. It has fresh strawberries, strawberry frosting, and strawberry cake. The frosting is made with vegan butter, powdered sugar, freeze dried strawberries, and more ingredients.
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4. Lava Cake
Lava Cake
This vegan lava cake is from Under The Willow Tree. It’s pretty quick to make and takes less than 45 minutes!
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5. Lemon Cake
Lemon Cake
Lemon cake is perfect to make in the summer. It has a lemon cream cheese frosting on it. The recipe is from My Darling Vegan.
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6. Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Lemon poppyseed anything is delicious! This beautiful cake was made by Rainbow Plant Life. It has vegan cream cheese frosting and blackberry ginger jam on it.
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7. Coconut Cake
Coconut Cake
This coconut cake from Rhian’s Recipes is gluten free. It only takes 50 minutes to make. The recipe calls for almond milk, maple syrup, coconut oil, gluten free flour, and more.
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8. Coffee Cake
Coffee Cake
This coffee cake from Connoisseurus Veg has a streusel topping and a glaze on top. Yum!
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9. Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake
Red velvet cake is so pretty and vibrant. This one from The Banana Diaries. It can be made gluten free or paleo.
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10. Chocolate Marble Cake
Chocolate Marble Cake
This marble cake was made by Best of Vegan. The swirled design is so pretty.
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11. Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake
This vegan carrot cake recipe is from The Hidden Veggies. This cake has carrots, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and more in it.
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12. Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake
I’m a huge fan of chocolate cake! The Cheeky Chickpea made this vegan chocolate cake with vegan chocolate frosting. The cake is moist and fudgy. Ingredients to make this cake include cocoa powder, all purpose flour, vanilla extract, and more.
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13. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
This chocolate peanut butter cake is from Pies and Tacos. It’s a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and a vegan ganache. The cake has vegan peanut butter truffles on top of it.
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14. Pound Cake
Pound Cake
Adam and I frequently make this delicious vegan pound cake from Loving It Vegan. It’s a moist pound cake with an almond glaze made with soy milk. It’s simple and easy to make. We also make this pound cake and use it for strawberry shortcake!
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15. Blackberry & Gin Cake
Blackberry and Gin Cake
Isn’t this the prettiest cake you’ve ever seen?! It’s a 3 layer cake. It’s a vanilla and blackberry cake with blackberry jam frosting and gin syrup. The recipe is from Cupful of Kale.
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16. Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Beaming Baker made this pumpkin coffee cake. It has a buttery cinnamon topping.
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17. Sponge Cake
Sponge Cake
This vegan sponge cake was made by Veggie Desserts. It has vanilla cream and strawberry jam in between two layers of cake.
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18. Tres Leches Cake
Tres Leches Cake
This tres leches cake from Go Dairy Free takes one hour to make, then it needs to chill overnight. It has coconut milk, applesauce, cashew milk, almond milk, and more in it.
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