Please would anyone share a fairly sturdy vegan choc cake recipe with me?

[geraldinetheluckygoat]

right. My neighbour's little girl is allergic to eggs in a big way and is also dairy intollerant, though her mum is slowly introducing diary back and seems to be going quite well.

Anyway she is obsessed with the episode of Peppa pig where they get a big chocolate cake and really wants one for her birthday in a couple of weeks.This will be the first ever cake she has tasted...I want it to taste amazing! I make cakes for a living but havent made a successful egg free cake yet, so Im going to start searching for a recipe.

If possible I would like to be able to sandwich together two cakes, with dairy free choc icing then cover in fondant icing and decorate with peppa and co.

Does anyone have a cake recipe that can be handled without crumbling into a million pieces and that tastes ok? And that will keep ok for a couple of days? I would love to be able to add an egg free recipe to my range of cakes, and some advice or pointers would be really really great if you have any before I just dive in and start testing random recipes off the net

Has anyone found anything that can be used as a substitute for egg? I have tried egg replacer which was a disaster, I have heard banana works, has anyone had any success with that?

Thanks in advance!!

Yes yes!! Yes!! Where did I put it???

Here it is!!

So easy and really moist. I made 2 and sandwiched together with pure and coco powder and then I think I splodged a load of the butter icing all over it. It was a monster!! Will try to upload a pic to my profile page...

DS is allergic to eggs and dairy and noone could tell it was any different to a normal cake!

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These quantities are for a chocolate tray cake made in a 20 x 25cm/8 x 10in (or thereabouts) tin.

250g/8oz plain flour
50g/2oz cocoa
250g/8oz caster sugar

125g/4oz vegan margarine
300ml/½ pint soya milk
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Preheat the oven to 170°C (possibly 180°C if not using a fan oven). Line the baking tin with greaseproof paper.

Sieve the flour and cocoa into a mixing bowl, add the sugar and mix together.

In a saucepan, melt the margarine and golden syrup and add most of the milk, keeping back about 4 tablespoons' worth.

Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the remaining milk and stir into the mixture. Place in the oven and bake for 35 minutes.

Topping suggestion: chocolate icing (mix icing sugar, cocoa and a small amount of water) and vegan chocolate sprinkles (e.g. Supercook).

Notes:

It's important to add the bicarb right at the end and put it straight in the oven, as it starts reacting as soon as it gets wet.

This mixture may seem runnier than cake mixtures usually are, but don't worry, it's supposed to be like that!

Picture on my profile but the photo size makes the cake look tiny - but it was huuuge! Honest!!

Thanks so much for that Slottiecake! Yesterday I tried a recipe that had bicarb and vineagar in, it used oil instead of marge. here
It was ok, I was pleasantly surprised!

I will give yours a try next, and see how that goes, I like the idea of using soya milk, can't you get flavoured/sweetened soya milk? I wonder what it would be like with a chocolate flavoured one? I like the fact that yours has golden syrup in it! The pic looks good (also, what a cute baby in your pics!).
Also I used the dr oatker (or might have been betty crocker) chocolate fudge icing from sainsburys, the one that comes in a little cardboard tub, and it was REALLY GOOD! It is egg and dairy free (well may contain a trace of dairy, checked with the mum of the girl im making it for and that's ok).
My cake came out a bit crusty round the edges. Did you find that with your recipe?

Wow! Your cakes are AMAZING!!!

I think you can get chocolate soya milk - that sounds like a good idea. I actually used oatly as ds is intollerant to soya as well (argh!)

I can't remember if it came out a bit crusty. It might have done but nothing too startling as I can't remember!

Will look out for the choc fudge icing - brilliant!!!

Would love to know how you get on with it - I think this was my first ever cake baking solo effort so would be great to see how it's supposed to look when made by someone who knows what they are doing

This is the one that I made for Ds's birthday cake - recipe suggested by Babybarrister from MN. I doubled the quantities to make 2 8inch cakes to sandwich together. It's really yummy :-)

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/4666/vegan-chocolate-cake.aspx

Ah thanks Slottie . I will probably try it this weekend, so I will let you know. I like that oatly stuff, its much nicer than the soya stuff isn't it? I will have a look around and see whats available flavours wise when I go to the supermaket. Yes the fudge icing is really good, it isnt too sweet, its got a little bit of salt in it I think, its nice and has a good texture for spreading, and piping if you want ot be really poncey
Thanks Cairnterrier, I made a recipe like yours last weekend, and it did come out really well! The vegans I tested it on were impressed! I was really impressed by how much the cakes rose too, and even though I cut the domes off to ice them, the cake still came out taller than my usual cakes! I might try that recipe again too but try adding some plain chocolate and replacing the water soya or oatley...