One Bowl Moist Vegan Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake

This one bowl easy vegan chocolate chip loaf cake is tender, moist, and deliciously sweet and studded with melty chocolate chips throughout! No eggs, no dairy, and easily gluten free too with the perfect chocolate ganache glaze!

Why you’ll love this vegan chocolate chip loaf above all else:

This vegan chocolate chip loaf cake is about to be your next favorite vegan breakfast treat (or honestly dessert too!). It’s like my vanilla pound cake recipe, but studded with chocolate chips (and even easier!).

I actually used this recipe as the base for both my vegan lemon pound cake, vegan marbled pound cake, and my vegan raspberry pound cake. It’s that good.

The texture is so tender and light, with the perfect crumb that you’d never know doesn’t contain any eggs nor milk!

For flavor, it’s a sweet vanilla cake with notes of rich chocolate. Basically a vanilla pound cake but slightly lighter and FULL of chocolate chips (or chocolate chip cookies in loaf form!).

Plus, you don’t need any fancy equipment for this chocolate chip loaf: no electric mixer, stand mixer, or hand mixer! Just a whisk, a large mixing bowl, and some patience, because even the batter tastes amazing.

Ingredients

For this vegan loaf cake, you’ll need:

• Flour: I used all purpose flour and have tested this with gluten free 1:1 baking flour (Bob’s Red Mill to be specific). Both work! It also works well with oat flour, but I will note it’s a bit more difficult. To get that cake flour texture, I add a touch of arrowroot starch.
• Baking Powder
• Vegan butter: I recommend Miyoko’s vegan butter. but you could also substitute coconut oil.
• Granulated organic sugar: I say organic because that’s how you’ll know the sugar you’re using is vegan. I use Florida Crystals specifically.
• Dairy free yogurt: I used Forager Project. Alternatively, you could use a vegan sour cream, like the one by Forager Project!
• Vegan mini chocolate chips: Hu gems, Enjoy Life, or Pascha Chocolate are my favorite!
• Pure vanilla extract
• Dairy free milk: I recommend using a thicker dairy free milk, like soy milk or oat milk, to simulate using whole milk.

Overview: How to make a chocolate chip loaf cake

Here’s how to make this easy chocolate chip loaf cake:

1. Whisk: Add the vegan butter, sugar, yogurt, and vanilla extract to a bowl, and whisk together.
2. Add in the dry: Then add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt.
3. Pour: Pour in the dairy free milk as your whisk the dry into the wet JUST until the dry is integrated into the wet ingredients.
4. Fold: Remove the whisk, and add in the chocolate chips. Fold just until evenly distributed.
5. Bake: Bake the vegan chocolate chip loaf cake in the oven for 55-60 minutes!

Can I make this chocolate chip loaf cake into a layer cake?

You could use the batter to make a small two layer 6″ chocolate chip cake. Alternatively, you could bake the batter into an 8″ single layer cake. However, I have a very similar recipe that’s a layered cake: my vegan chocolate chip cookie dough cake!

You’re just going to absolutely love this easy vegan chocolate chip loaf cake! It’s such a treat to make and absolutely amazing on the day it’s baked (though you can freeze leftover slices or store them in the fridge in an airtight container!). 

Perfect for an anytime treat, or more for a special holiday, like Mother’s Day, Easter, or even a bridal shower.

Enjoy!

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