Chocolate & Vanilla Vegan Marble Cake
Can’t decide between vanilla or chocolate cake for your Valentine? Why not have both with this Chocolate & Vanilla Vegan Marble Cake! Pretty, easy to make & sure to impress! All you need is a piping bag of each batter which you dollop into the tin before swirling with a skewer or knife! Fill with Dairy Free Buttercream for a freefrom treat to share with friends!
Its really hard to keep up with friends when we are all working pretty much full time. We don’t get to meet up anywhere near as much as we would like. I am really lucky to have a great group of friends. It doesn’t matter how long between catch-ups, its always like we’ve never been apart. We always have such a great time and its lovely to see all the littlies catching up and playing together so nicely! And this cake certainly didn’t last very long with them around!
The swirly pattern is really pretty. You can colour the vanilla sponge however you like – Elodie has her eyes on a pink & yellow swirly cake for her ‘Hunicorn’ birthday cake! The vanilla & chocolate flavours go really nicely as would orange & chocolate or rhubarb & custard. I am fairly sure there is more elegant ways to swirl the batters together to make it look a bit prettier but I kinda like it rustic looking. The cake is filled with a dark chocolate buttercream but vanilla would work just as well. For a sweeter cake add some jam and slightly less cocoa powder to the chocolate sponge.
The chocolate drizzle on top is really easy to make it is just dark chocolate melted with a drop of vegetable oil and a little dairyfree milk to loosen it. Sweet Freedom Choc Shot would work really well on this either the original chocolate one or the chocolate orange flavoured one. I also really like the flavour of the freeze dried raspberries sprinkled on top plus they look pretty! According to Elodie it would have been better with dairyfree white & plain chocolate buttons on the top! Honestly these Peachicks are a fussy bunch!
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Recipe: Chocolate & Vanilla Vegan Marble Cake
Chocolate & Vanilla Vegan Marble Cake
Ingredients
Vanilla Sponge
- 75 g Self Raising Flour
- 1/2 tbsp Ground Chia Seeds
- 100 g Granulated sugar
- 50 ml Vegetable Oil
- 100 ml Dairyfree Milk (Koko)
Chocolate Sponge
- 75 g Self Raising Flour
- 25 g Plain Flour
- 1/2 tbsp Chia Seeds
- 100 g Granulated sugar
- 50 ml Vegetable Oil
- 100 ml Dairyfree Milk (Koko)
- 25 g Cocoa Powder
Chocolate Buttercream
- 50 g Dark Chocolate
- 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 1 tbsp Dairyfree Milk (Koko)
- 75 g Dairyfree Margarine (Vitalite, Pure)
- 150 g Icing Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line three sandwich tins with a circle of greaseproof paper.
For the Sponges
- Make the sponge batters separately. Start with the vanilla then you can use the same bowl for the chocolate afterwards!
- Into a large mixing bowl stir the plain flour, self raising flour, ground chia seeds, sugar and cocoa powder (for the chocolate sponge) together. Then in a measuring jug pour the dairyfree milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract.
- Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry, stirring gently. Pour each batter into a separate piping bag. Squeeze the batters in random swirly patterns all over the 3 cake tins. Drag a skewer through the mixtures to make the patterns prettier!
- Bake for 15-18mins on the middle shelf until cooked through. Leave to cool while you make the buttercream.
For the Buttercream
- Melt the chocolate in a small saucepan with a tbsp each of vegetable oil and milk. Beat the dairyfree margarine and icing sugar together with the melted chocolate mixture. Spread evenly between the three cakes before layering up and decorating with freeze dried raspberries!
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Wow what a great gluten free bake.I love the addition of the freeze dried raspberries too.It looks delicous x#CookBlogShare
Thank you! They are really pretty! X
This looks scrumptious as can be!! Do come link this up with our The Blended Blog Today, I am hosting and Happy Valentine’s Day!!
thank you! Ooh I will hop over and have a looking! X
Ooooh this cake looks and sounds delicious. Marble cake is a favourite here! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Thank you, I’d never made one before! The Peachicks thought it was very cool though! x
the dessert you share here looks amazing. It will make up for all those who can not figure out if it should be chocolate or white. It looks awesome how it is put together and I believe would taste that way as well
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Thank you! I will pop over and have a peek! X
What a great idea for a cake – love the marbling. I once did a pink and chocolate marble barbie cake for my daughter’s birthday (at her request) Worked out quite well – looked awesome when we cut into the ‘skirt’ 🙂 Eb x
Oooh I bet the pink & chocolate looked stunning! One of the Peachicks wanted a barbie cake one year – until she realised I would need a Barbie doll to sit in it! LOL!
I love marble cake Midge, its such a gorgeous balance between the richness of a chocolate cake and a ‘plainer’ vanilla sponge. Your chocolate drizzle looks so beautifully shiney too, it finishes it off a treat 🙂
Angela x
Thank you! Its such a good recipe for when you just can’t decide! The chocolate drizzle is just melted chocolate – It does have a tbsp of vegetable oil in it which is what makes it so shiny!
Yummy – this looks delicious! Still trying to get vegan cakes right so must try this recipe out. #CookBlogShare
Yes definitely give it a go – although the Vegan Victoria Sponge is a good recipe to start with – I made my friends wedding cake with it!
I love marble cake, Midge. There are my two favourite flavours in one cake, I couldn’t wish for more!
Thank you! Its great when you can’t decide! I am fully expecting there to be a Peachick version of it with 3 flavours in it next!
Oh my gosh, this looks absolutely delicious!
Thank yoU!
This looks so good! Have the inlaws coming at the weekend. Might try it! #UKBloggerClub
Let me know how it turns out!
Oh wow, I’ve not had marble cake for years, reminds me of my teen years when my mum first let me lose in the kitchen!
I’d never made it before but I can see it becoming a favourite around here!
This looks scrummy! #FreeFromFridays
Thank yoU!
Oh gosh – seriously not helping with my diet. That looks scrumptious!!
Thanks for linking to #foodiefriday
haha oops! Sorry! To be fair there is some fruit even if it is just freeze dried raspberries!
What a pretty cake, I love the marbling of chocolate and vanilla and the freeze dried raspberries go so well. Popping over from #WeShouldCocoa 🙂
Thank you! It was really easy to do and went down well round here! Have to pop over in a bit and catch up with everyone’s recipes!
Mmmmmmmmmmm I do so love a good marble cake but I’m not so great at making them maybe I should give your recipe a go, I might be more successful then!
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Definitely give it a go! The piping bag for each flavour and randomly piping both in, in a crazy pattern seemed to work really well!
We need this – I’m chocolate and Carl is vanilla! And it looks fun too. #freefromfridays
Love it! In this house it would be coffee for me & chocolate for matt OR white chocolate for him & dark for me! x
Love it! In this house it would be coffee for me & chocolate for matt OR white chocolate for him & dark for me! x
I haven’t tried using chia seeds in cakes yet. I think I must give them a go as the results look so impressive. I do find Pure a very good vegan spread for both baking and buttercream.
I can see why the kids enjoyed this. I love it. I much prefer rustic to polished perfection and I love all the swirls you’ve got in this one. Thanks for sharing with We Should Cocoa. Have pinned and I’m hoping to get the round-up posted later today.