Print
Vegan Texas Sheet Cake
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 9-12 servings 1x
- Category: Desserts and Snacks
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
If you haven’t experienced a Texas sheet cake, I have pity for you. Give this one a try! It’s chocolately, decadent, vegan, and oil-free.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
Ingredients for cake:
- 1/3 cup of maple syrup (or a half cup of date paste)
- 1/2 cup of unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup of coffee
- 2 tablespoons of white vinegar
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla
- 2 tablespoons of cacao
- 1 can black beans (rinsed drained)
- 1 cup oats
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed meal
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips
Ingredients for frosting:
- 1/2 cup of silken tofu
- 1 cup of date paste
- 1 tablespoon of cacao
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Finely chopped pecans for sprinkling on top, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper.
- Mix the wet ingredients together in a medium bowl – maple syrup (or date paste), applesauce, coffee, white vinegar, and vanilla.
- To a food processor add black beans, cacao, oats, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Pour wet ingredients on top and combine very well.
- Mix in flaxseed meal and chocolate chips (not in the food processor)
- Transfer to the 8×8 pan and cook for 27-30 minutes, until a knife pulls out clean. Don’t wash the food processor but scrape well.
- Make the frosting by combining the ingredients in the food processor.
- Cool the cake completely (let it cool for a few minutes then lift the cake out of the pan by the parchment paper) When it’s completely cooled, transfer back to the pan, without the parchment paper if you can.
- Pour the frosting over the top of the cake. Sprinkle with pecans if you’re using them.
- Refrigerate the leftover cake.
The frosting sounds great and i look forward to trying that!
I’ve not been able to locate vegan chocolate chips that don’t have some type of oil in them – do you know of an oil free brand? Do you think it would work if i increase cocoa and omit chips?
It really needs chocolate chips. I use Enjoy Life vegan chocolate chips. They definitely have fat in them, but you’re not eating a lot at one time.
to Ribin…Whole Foods carries a brand made with dates and no refined sugar. Also Hu–but read the label on that one
I was intrigued by the ingredients Especially the black beans.
Ground my flax seed (couldn’t find the ground flaxseed meal) in the coffee grinder
Used instant espresso
Dont like to fussy it up the first time.
Very rich, like a dense brownie.
I served cold. Warm is lovely too.