Easy vegan chocolate cake
This indulgent, fudgy vegan cake is topped with a rich frosting – you'd never guess that it's gluten-free and made without dairy, eggs, wheat or nuts
Vegan courgette cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Makes 10-12 slices
Skip to ingredients
- 80g vegan butterblock, softened, plus extra for the tin
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 2 lemonszested, 1 juiced
- 100ml plant milk(we used oat)
- 100g ground almonds
- 175g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 175g courgettescoarsely grated
For the icing
- 200g icing sugar
Nutrition: Per serving (12)
- kcal286
- fat10g
- saturates4g
- carbs44g
- sugars32g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.31g
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a 900g loaf tin. Beat together the vegan butter block, sugar and lemon zest until combined. Add the plant milk and beat slowly to combine. Add the ground almonds, flour and baking powder, along with the grated courgette, and stir to combine. Spoon the batter into the prepared tin (it will be quite thick) and level the top. Bake for 55-60 mins until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely in the tin.
step 2
To make the icing, sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and add 1 tbsp of the lemon juice and stir to combine. Add a little more lemon juice if needed, ½ tsp at a time, until you reach your desired consistency. Remove the cake from the tin and drizzle over the icing, allowing it to drip down the sides. Leave to set for 20-30 mins. Cut into slices to serve.
