Vegan Red Velvet Cake For Valentine’s Day
This heart-shaped vegan red velvet cake is super moist, soft, and makes the most beautiful Valentine’s Day dessert. It has that classic vibrant red color and subtle cocoa flavor, all completely eggless and dairy-free. Baked in a heart-shaped tin or cut by hand, it looks stunning on a romantic table and tastes every bit as special as it looks. Also try my Vegan Red Velvet Cake, Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes, or Red Velvet Heart Cupcakes.
Eggless Dairy-free Red Velvet Cake
This Heart-Shaped Red Velvet Cake is soft and moist and so easy to make.Eggless Dairy-free Red Velvet Cake, perfect for Valentine's day.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (240 ml) Water, room temperature
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) White Vinegar or Lemon Juice
- 3/4 cup (150 g) Superfine Granulated Sugar
- 1 tsp (5 ml) Vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup (80 ml) Vegetable Oil
- 1 ¾ cup (245 g) All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tbsp (7 g) Cocoa Powder
- 1 ½ tsp (6 g) Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp (2.5 g) Baking Soda
- 1/4 tsp (1.5 g) Salt
- 1 tsp (5 ml) Red Food Coloring Gel (I used AmeriColor Super Red Soft Gel Paste)
- Icing/Powdered Sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350oF (180oC).Grease and line heart-shaped cake pan (8 x 1.5 inch / 20 x 4 cm) with parchment paper. Set aside.
- To a bowl, add water, vinegar and sugar. Whisk until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Then, add vanilla extract. Mix well.
- Add vegetable oil and mix well.
- Sift in flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Mix until dry flour is no longer visible. DO NOT OVER MIX (mix until dry and wet ingredients are just combined).
- Add red food coloring gel and mix until combined.
- Pour batter into cake pan.Drop pan on table to remove air bubbles.
- Bake in preheated oven to 350oF (180oC), rack middle position, 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the middle of cake comes out clean.
- Let cake cool down in pan for 10 minutes. Then transfer cake to wire rack to cool down completely.
- Place 2 paper hearts on top of cake and dust with icing/powdered sugar. Then, remove paper hearts.
