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Vegan Cherry Chocolate Cake

Vegan cherry chocolate cake - simple, moist and chocolaty. The vegan fresh cherry cake can be made gluten-free and sugar free and can also be baked in a loaf tin or as muffins. So decadent and indulgent, but made from wholesome ingredients!

Course Dessert
Cuisine German
Keyword vegan cherry cake, vegan chocolate cherry cake
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 210 kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose or spelt flour or gluten-free flour 240 g
  • 7 tbsp cocoa powder 45 g
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder 8 g
  • 1 tsp baking soda or 2 tsp more baking powder 6 g
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 cup coconut sugar 200 g
  • 1 cup offee or cherry juice - if using juice add 3/4 cups / 150 g sugar 240 ml c
  • cup 90 g vegetable oil e.g. sunflower or canola oil or melted coconut oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract optional
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 cups fresh cherries or canned 350 g cherries / 12.3 oz drained weight or use fresh cherries
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 356 °F (180 °C). Lightly grease a 9-inch (22-24 cm) springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Read blog post for substitution of pan.
  2. If using fresh cherries, pit them. If using canned, drain the cherries well and reserve the juice. Toss the cherries in the cornstarch to lightly coat them.
  3. Sift the flour together with the cocoa powder, and baking powder into a large bowl. Then add baking soda, sugar, and salt and whisk together.
  4. In a measuring jar, whisk together coffee (or cherry juice if using), oil, vanilla and almond extract and apple cider vinegar. Then pour it into the flour mixture and mix with a whisk or spoon until just combined. Do this by hand and do not over-mix, or the cake will be dense.

  5. Pour half of the batter into the prepared baking pan and sprinkle with half of the cherries on top. Then pour the rest of the batter on top and finally spread the rest of the cherries on top.

  6. Bake the cake in the preheated oven for about 55 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Remove the cake from oven and let cool down completely (if you like, you can brush some heated black cherry jam on top which helps the cake to stay moist longer).