Vegan Guinness Cake – Connoisseurus Veg

March 16, 2024

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This vegan Guinness cake is moist, fudgy, and stuffed with wealthy chocolaty taste! It is tremendous easy to make and ideal for celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day — however you may in all probability wish to make all of it yr lengthy!

Slice of Vegan Guinness Cake on a dish with coffee cup and bowl of berries in the background.

This vegan Guinness cake is not fancy. It is a humble, single layer chocolate cake, and albeit, it is not a lot to take a look at. However I promise you, what this cake lacks in look, it makes up for in texture and taste. This is without doubt one of the most scrumptious muffins I’ve ever tasted!

I did not provide you with the concept for a Guinness chocolate cake. My recipe is tailored from a fairly well-known Guinness cake recipe by Nigella Lawson. I knew the world wanted a vegan model, so I went and created one!

This cake is nice for celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day — maybe as a dessert to comply with up my vegan Irish stew, however actually, it is so scrumptious I feel you may wish to make it yr spherical.

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Components You may Want

Guinness. You’ll be able to substitute one other model of stout beer if you would like, however be sure it is vegan. Some manufacturers are processed utilizing animal components. Barnivore can assist you type out which manufacturers are vegan-friendly.
Vegan butter. Most grocery shops promote vegan butter within the refrigerated part, close to the common butter.
Unsweetened cocoa powder.
Sugar. Use natural sugar. Typical (non-organic) sugar could also be bleached utilizing animal bone char, so it is not vegan.
Water.
Floor flaxseeds. We’ll be mixing these with the water to create a flax egg, which is one in all my favourite vegan egg substitutes for baking.
Brown sugar. Your brown sugar additionally must be natural.
Vegan yogurt. Use an unsweetened and unflavored number of yogurt.
Vanilla extract.
Flour. We’re utilizing all-purpose wheat flour, also called white flour. Whereas different forms of flour may go, I have not examined any, so I can not say for certain if they may.
Baking soda.
Salt.
Frosting. I like to recommend utilizing my vegan cream cheese frosting, however my vegan vanilla buttercream or vegan chocolate frosting may even work.

How It is Made

The next is an in depth photograph tutorial on how one can make this dish. Scroll all the way in which down if you would like to skip proper to the recipe!

Hand whisking guinness, melted vegan butter, cocoa and sugar together in a saucepan.

Begin by heating your Guinness and vegan butter in a small saucepan, whereas whisking them collectively till the butter melts. Take the pot off of the burner and whisk in cocoa powder and a few sugar. Let the combination cool.

Whereas the Guinness combination cools, whisk your water and floor flaxseeds collectively in a big mixing bowl. Let the combination sit for a couple of minutes. The seeds will suck up water and gel.

Tip: You’ll be able to velocity up cooling of your Guinness combination by putting the saucepan in an ice water tub.

Flax egg and sugar begin whipped in a bowl with an electric mixer.

Add sugar, brown sugar, vegan yogurt and vanilla extract to the bowl together with your flax egg, then beat every thing along with an electrical mixer for one minute. The combination might be a bit foamy.

Hand whisking liquid ingredients for Guinness cake together in a glass bowl.

Add the Guinness combination to the bowl together with your flax egg combination, then whisk every thing collectively by hand. Be sure the Guinness combination has cooled to room temperature earlier than including it.

Tip: Your components ought to all be at room temperature earlier than including them to the recipe. This may imply warming up your vegan yogurt if it has been within the fridge.

Chocolate cake batter in a bowl with whisk.

Now whisk the dry components into your batter. Add the flour in just a few increments, then sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the past addition of flour earlier than whisking it in.

Vegan Guinness Cake batter in a springform pan.

Pour the batter right into a springform pan that is been lined with parchment paper. Try this video on how one can line a springform pan should you’re undecided the way it’s performed. Do not skip this step! Pop it into the oven to bake.

White wooden surface set with coffee cup and Vegan Guinness Cake with berries.

Let your cake cool utterly on a wire rack earlier than eradicating it from the pan. As soon as it is cool, fastidiously take away the pan, the slather it generously with frosting. You too can give it a sprinkle of chocolate shavings if you would like!

Shelf-Life & Storage

Vegan Guinness chocolate cake will maintain in an hermetic container in at room temperature for about three days, within the fridge for about 5 days, or within the freezer for about three months.

Steadily Requested Questions

Are you able to style the Guinness on this cake?

Sure, but it surely’s very delicate. Whereas the Guinness positively enhances the flavour, you may not understand it was in there should you did not know higher.

Why did my vegan Guinness cake sink within the center?

Guinness muffins almost at all times are inclined to sink a bit within the center. You’ll be able to even see this within the photographs. This is because of the truth that the batter is sort of skinny, in addition to the heavy quantity of leavening provided by the beer. In case your cake sinks greater than a bit, it might be on account of mismeasuring components, overmixing the batter, or taking the cake out of the oven too quickly.

Can I make this cake with out alcohol?

Possibly! My intuition tells me that different fizzy liquids like membership soda or cola would work. I’ve used them each efficiently in eggless muffins earlier than, as documented in this text on veganizing boxed cake mixes. However I have not examined both with this explicit recipe. As a substitute of taking an opportunity, how about simply making one of many chocolate cake recipes linked beneath as a substitute?

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